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Andy Warhol: Polaroids, Celebrities and Self-Portraits

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I loved it, but then again I'm partial to Warhol's iconoclastic style in general. What I liked about this book is that it gives a "behind-the-scenes" peek at the artist and the people he surrounded himself with. The photos are raw and engaging, and they're right there, in your face, untouched. Oh, and the celebrity photos you see are just great (lots of famous people). And of course, seeing the world through Andy's eyes is always a new experience. If you're interested in the human side of the artist, as well as some of his lesser-known works, I recommend this book to you.

This large sized, but very thin book is printed on a large format but the photographs within are to scale (ie. Polaroid instant photo size). Very little text, though it does provide technical information, such as the size and date of each photograph at the end. The only problem is that the techinical information is almost exactly the same on each Polaroid snapshot, with the same dimensions and film type used, etc. It also only spans a short time period of Warhol's work. Very boring.