Nadar/Warhol, Paris/New York : Photography and Fame

by Gordon Baldwin; Judith Keller

• ISBN13: 9780892365654
• ISBN10: 089236565X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-26
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Summary

This engaging catalog features the photographic portraiture of the nineteenth-century Parisian Nadar and the twentieth-century New Yorker Andy Warhol. The two photographers have more in common than one might suppose, particularly as adroit manipulators who simultaneously promoted their own reputations and those of their subjects. Both men emerged from the Bohemia of their day to become photographers after following earlier artistic pursuits: Nadar as a writer and caricaturist, Warhol as a commercial graphic artist, then painter and filmmaker. While celebrating their individual achievements, Nadar/Warhol: Paris/New York also illuminates the role of the visual artist in the conscious creation of celebrity and the changing nature of fame. Among the many portraits in this exhibition catalog are Nadar's photographs of such luminaries as George Sand, Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Jean-Francois Millet, and Sarah Bernhardt; and Warhols images of celebrities including Mick Jagger, Truman Capote, Jane Fonda, Robert Rauschenberg, Debbie Harry, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Liza Minnelli.

Author Biography

Judith Keller and Gordon Baldwin are associate curators in the Getty Museum's Department of Photographs. Keller is the author of Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection. Baldwin is the author of Roger Fenton: Pasha and Bayadere and Looking at Photographs. Richard Brilliant is Anna S. Garbedian Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the author of Portraiture.

Table of Contents

Foreword	10	(1)
Deborah Gribbon
Preface and Acknowledgments	11	(4)
Gordon Baldwin
Judith Keller
Introduction	15	(15)
Richard Brilliant
Nadar A Photographer in Bohemia	30	(103)
Gordon Baldwin
Catalogue	43	(90)
Warhol: Andy Warhol's Photo-Biography	133	(95)
Judith Keller
Catalogue	145	(83)
Endnotes	228	(5)
Index	233