This Book of Contact Sheets By Andy Warhol Give a Glimpse of What His Instagram Feed Might Have Looked Like

Andy Warhol (U.S.A., 1928–1987), Detail from Contact Sheet [Jean-Michel Basquiat photo shoot for Polaroid portrait; Andy Warhol, Bruno Bischofberger], 1982. Gelatin silver print. Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., 2014.43.1547. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

If Andy Warhol were resurrected today, he would blink his eyes, and immediately start taking photographs to populate his Instagram feed. The images he posted would likely look something like those in Contact Warhol: Photography Without End, a book that features some of the 130,000 exposures Warhol clicked in the last decade of his life.

The book is published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name open at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University through January 6, and is the result of the acquisition of 3,600 contact sheets by the Cantor Arts Center from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in 2014.

Andy Warhol (U.S.A., 1928–1987), Detail from Contact Sheet [Andy Warhol, Bianca Jagger, Halston, Diane de Beauvau, Bethann Hardison in the back of a limousine], 1976. Gelatin silver print. Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., 2014.43.3622. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

The book, which was written by Richard Meyer and Peggy Phelan, co-curators of the exhibition and art history professors at Stanford, shows a life populated by the celebrity and art world elite of the time, including Bianca Jagger, Liza Minnelli and Jean-Michel Basquiat. It also shows a number of New York street scenes.

Andy Warhol (U.S.A., 1928–1987), Detail from Contact Sheet [Andy Warhol photo shoot with Liza Minnelli and Victor Hugo, John Lennon], 1978. Gelatin silver print. Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., 2014.43.8. ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

Warhol, who always carried a camera with him from 1976 until his death in 1987, betrayed both his fascination and unease with his famous companions by constantly snapping photographs of them.

Andy Warhol (U.S.A., 1928–1987), Detail from Contact Sheet [Photo shoot with Andy Warhol with shadow], 1986. Gelatin silver print. Gift of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., 2014.43.2893. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

The book and exhibition are part of a larger project to make the 3,600 contact sheets available to the public through the Stanford University Libraries. To view the collection in its entirety, click here.

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