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Thursday, April 19, 2012

ANDY WARHOL POLAROIDS

Warhol once said everyone would be famous for 15 minutes. Having your portrait done by Andy certainly helped.

The Polaroids behind Andy Warhol’s iconic portraits of stars such as Muhammad Ali, Blondie’s Debbie Harry, John Lennon and even Wayne Gretzsky can be seen in this post.

Before creating the iconic screen prints of the stars of stage and screen, Warhol would take a selection of photographs of them with an instant Polaroid camera, which would then be used as the basis of the final works of art.



 John Lennon

Muhammad Ali


Debbie Harry




Mick Jagger


Dolly Parton


Wayne Gretzky

Dennis Hopper


Arnold Schwarzenegger




Maria Shriver
Sylvester Stallone

Farrah Fawcett


Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1982 




Artist Robert Rauschenberg
Jerry Hall


 Warhol in drag








John McEnroe and Tatum O'Neal




Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, 1983



Andy Warhol self portrait

Muhammad Ali


Grace Jones

Yves Saint Laurent


Giorgio Armani

Gianni Versace

Valentino
Designer Gianfranco Ferre

Warhol

Truman Capote
 Shoemaker

Keith Haring and Juan Dubose


Some dude
Grace Jones

Jane Fonda

Jimmy Carter

 OJ Simpson



Arnold Palmer


Artsist Joseph Beuys


Dancer Martha Graham

Ric Ocasek
Diana Ross

Ted Kennedy
Bianca Jagger


Carolina Herrera



Pelé



Model Evelyn Kuhn

Kareem Abdul Jabbar


Truman Capote

 Sean Lennon
Yoko Ono


(right) Pia Zadora
Tom Seaver (left)
Billy Squire (looks like Antonio Banderas)


Dorothy Hamill

Howdy Doody

Caroline, Princess of monaco', 1983







Debbie Harry




Liza Minnelli




Carly Simon
Pig

Warhol in drag 

Mick Jagger


Joan Collins


Helen/Harry Morales
Artist Georgia O'keeffe

Hitchcock



Chris Evert






William S. Buroughs
Paloma Picasso

Warhol in Drag


Wish to make a Andy Warhol pop art image of one of your photos? 
Go to photobucket.com and create an account (if you don't already have one), upload your pic and go to edit, then go to effects and select pop art. Or you can go to lunapic.com and upload your pic and under effects and click Warhol Effect. Photobucket is the better of the two. Have fun!




Many thanks to Branko Mustafovic for the tip on this post idea. Cheers!



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