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Warhol by Galella: That's Great!

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Galella was Warhol's favorite photographer---not Steichen, Adams or Weegee, but the celebrity chasing, exploitation-driven paparazzo. This tome celebrates this fame with 200 of the photographer's pictures of Andy, alone and with the famous and infamous cast in his life. Larger than your average coffee-table book---add legs and it could serve as a coffee table---That's Great! offers a fascinating take into a rarified atmosphere. Warhol himself was terribly shy and suffered from several acute skin conditions, so he did "paint" himself, then adding a wig before being seen in public. Some of these photos, taken late in the evening, or rather, early in the morning, do not necessarily show Warhol at his best. However, Galella's signature photos document an era gone by, a decadent, selfish period of superstars and sluts, beauties and beasts, of media mad mavens recreating themselves to make a buck. Warhol is in all of the photos, as, indeed, the touchstone of the times, but it's the supporting cast, from Liza to Bianca to Jackie O to the complete cast of Studio 54 and the Warhol Factory that powers this collection. Galella's photographs suggest a toxic past that had to end; by some magic, only Warhol himself seems comfortable and at home in these pictures, while his friends and fans seem striving much too hard to have fun.

As a fan of Ron Galella and Andy Warhol this book is a must have! It's so wonderful to see Andy and all the glamorous superstars again! I would also highly recommend Ron Galella's The Disco years, I bought it last summer and it is still on my coffee table!

This book came nicely wrapped and was delivered fast. It took me a while to open the wrapping for fear of damaging the photos. But, it really is beautiful.

Andy and Ron, a perfect team who delivers stunning celebrity photography of the last 40 years or so. One feels Ron Galella was not just recording these moments as he was living them with the famous and infamous. He gets emotions from happy to bored from people we all read about in 'Life', 'People' and 'The Enquirer'(C'mon, you know you read it in the market checkout). If you lived through this time frame, Ron's book is an imaginative walk through the decades. It makes the current papparazzi glitter globe pale in comparison. Give us another Jackie O, Andy Warhol or Liz Taylor and their jet set pals again--that would be great! We're bored with teen idols who get arrested for DWI and get caught naked on their patios!

I love Galellas photos and his books are simply gorgeous,The Disco Years was my first and recently the Warhol book,cant wait for more!buy this book!!

Ron Galella just keeps on keepin on! This time he very admirably salutes Andy Warhol with a heartfelt compliment -- a sleek book of photographs in relation to Warhol and his Warholian World - it's a sentimental and sensational tribute to Andy's initial compliment about Galella. This is in some ways a thank you gift from an artist Andy Warhol called his favorite photographer. Who wouldn't be flattered? And that includes Ron Galella! Following The Photographs of Ron Galella, Ron Galella: Intimate Diary, and Disco Years - this brand new book takes its rightful place in the Ron Galella coffeetable photography books Hall of Fame.