Room 8
What Andy read and printed. Fame, on paper, weekly.
1970s
Halston dressed me and everybody I photographed. This book has all the clothes and the beautiful people wearing them. He made simple things and simple is the hardest.
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1938
I painted from comics before I did the soup cans. Here is Superman from the very beginning in color. Comics are just paintings that come out every week.
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2020
Somebody wrote down my whole life and it came out very long. I would rather be on the cover than read it, but it is thorough. Now you...
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1931
I painted Dick Tracy early, before anyone was looking at me. This collects the whole strip with the crooks and the wristwatch radio. I like a hero with...
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1980s
Jean-Michel came around and I liked him right away. This is all his paintings in one book from Taschen. He got famous fast and this is why.
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1940s
Weegee photographed the crime and the crowd with one flashbulb. The tabloids ran it and I looked at all of it. Death and the front page, that is...
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2011
I read Vogue to see who was pretty this month. This book is just the covers, one after another, which is the best part. You do not even...
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2006
They put my whole life in one enormous book so you can have the Factory on your coffee table. I like that it is big and flat and...
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1973
I made Marilyn over and over because the face was already famous. Norman Mailer wrote the words and Taschen made it big and heavy. I like things that...
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1982
Edie was my first superstar and everybody wanted to be her. This is her whole story told by the people who watched it happen. It is sad but...
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2004
I started Interview so I could get into parties and ask people almost nothing. This book puts all the covers and conversations in one place. It is my...
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1979
I took my camera everywhere and photographed everybody at every party. The pictures are in here with my captions about who was there. Nothing happened but I wrote...
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1977
I went to 54 almost every night and stood by the wall and watched. This book has the pictures of the door and the dance floor. Everybody was...
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