Lot Details
Lot 1168
BERLIN, BRIGID Polaroids.
London: Reel Art Press, 2015. First edition, number 52 of 126 copies signed by Berlin and with an original initialed, stamped and numbered photographic pigment print depicting Andy Warhol in a sleeve at the end. Publisher's pictorial boards, in slipcase. 10 3/4 x 9 inches; 206 pp., color illustrations after Berlin and Warhol's Polaroids. The text includes a foreword by John Waters, introduction by Bob Colacello, and 1970 essay by Berlin, and a print reproducing one of her Polaroids of Warhol. A few scuffs to slipcase, else fine.
A signed limited copy of this monograph of Brigid Berlin's Polaroids documenting herself, Andy Warhol, the denizens of the Factory, and the bohemian arts scene of 1960's and 70's New York. "The Polaroids here show just how wide Brigid's world was; her access was amazing. She was never a groupie, always an insider. The only Warhol gang member who could be home in both the back room at Max's with the gay, druggy pop art crowd or in the front with the boozy heterosexual abstract expressionists... Seeing these Polaroids we realize she was also a master. On the other side of Brigid's lens, Warhol seemed vulnerable, even haunted... Iggy Pop appears shy... Brigid also experimented with double-exposures and it worked; still lifes became pop, portraits collaged... And who came first with Polaroid patchwork arrangements - David Hockney or our gal Berlin?" (pp. 9-11).
C Estate of Brigid Berlin
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