Friday, 15 February 2008

Toilets, dogs and Jean-Michel


The West End Timothy Taylor Gallery is currently hosting one of London's most exciting exhibitions this season.

Andy Warhol: Portraits and Landscapes features a rare collection of over 200 black and white photographs by the legendary Pop artist.

Taken from 1976-87, these photographs reveal the last ten years of Warhol's life in the urban landscape of New York, London and even Paris.

Through the eyes of Warhol as a twentieth century flâneur, images of toilets, mannequins in shop windows, dogs and flea-markets still bear their original potency in this poetic visual narrative.

Whilst Rachael had great trouble peeling her eyes away from a photograph of two well-dressed pugs, I had a soft-spot for undeveloped negatives showing intimate portraits of Jean-Michel Basquiat in a Keith Haring t-shirt.

The exhibtion is free and runs until February 29th

Caroline Legrand

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