This show features approximately 300 Polaroids and 70 gelatin silver black-and-white prints pooled from the many donated to the Weatherspoon Art Museum, the Nasher Museum of Art, and the Ackland Art Museum in 2008 by the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program, a division of the Andy Warhol Foundation. "Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids” will feature some of the models, actors, sports heroes, and socialites who populated Warhol’s world.
Image: Andy Warhol, "Jean-Machel Basquiat", 1982, Polacolor ER photograph, 4 1/4 x 3 6/16 in., Gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, 2008.
