Polaroids and Portraits:

        A Photographic Legacy of Andy Warhol
      January 30 through May 24, 2009

    Curator: Kathryn Koca
      

   
   

      

Andy Warhol
        Ina Ginsburg, January 1982 & July 1983
Polacolor 2 & Polacolor ER
© 2008 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
   

Polaroids and Portraits presents a selection of the 152 photographs that Krannert Art Museum graciously received from the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program. Established in 2007 to commemorate the Warhol Foundation’s twentieth anniversary, the Legacy Program gifted over 28,500 original photographs to 183 college and university museums and galleries across the country with the hope of enabling wider access to these more seldom seen works. This exhibition displays both Polaroid and silver gelatin portraits of celebrities, socialites, and unknowns, all photographed with varying degrees of wit, humor, and intimacy. These photographs complicate our notion of the artist’s persona as wholly immersed in this world of glamour, presenting Warhol as not only a prolific photographer, but a man grappling with his own identity as a famous artist.

Exhibition sponsored in part by Fox Development Corporation; Fred and Donna Giertz; Office of the Chancellor, U of I; and Office of the Provost and Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs,