That poison arrow: A Year In The Life Of Andy Warhol
A photo book on Andy Warhol? Pretty tedious, right? A heavyweight coffee table slab of black-and-white photos of a hugely-documented (not least documented by himself ) artist-trickster: who needs it? Do YOU? Do I ...? Anyway, seems I do, and the other day I picked up A Year In The Life Of Andy Warhol (2003), a glossy Phaidon publication containing photographs of Warhol by David McCabe with a running commentary by David Dalton , a young photographer/film-maker (and later writer) who worked with Warhol in his early years. This blog is (supposedly) a music blog and by rights I shouldn't be messing around with a book of photos of a famous artist, but ... well, Warhol's world of art, happenings, film-making and party-going is obviously pretty music-adjacent, and that's even without the Velvet Underground (who don't feature in this book at all). So yeah, here it comes. A Year In The Life Of Andy Warhol - photos of Warhol during 1964-65 when he's hanging out with fellow...
