Liza Minnelli
- Place made
- New York, New York, United States of America
- Medium
- Polaroid™ Polacolor Type 108
- Dimensions
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9.5 x 7.3 cm (image)
10.8 x 8.5 cm (sheet) - Credit line
- V.B.F. Young Bequest Fund 2012
- Accession number
- 201210Ph41
- Signature and date
- Artist's blindstamp in margin, l.c.- l.r., "© ANDY WARHOL".
- Provenance
- The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York, 1987-2012.
- Media category
- Photograph
- Collection area
- American photographs
- Copyright
- © Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. ARS/Copyright Agency
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WALL LABEL: Andy Warhol and Photography: A Social Media, 2023
Warhol’s published diary for 17 February 1978 notes that ‘Liza came to the office today to have her portrait done’. ‘Liza’ was the actress and singer Liza Minnelli, who became an important member of Warhol’s inner circle in the late 1970s.
This Polaroid was one of many taken on the day of the photo shoot, for which Liza posed in several different outfits. In this image, she is dressed in her red-sequined Halston costume from the Broadway play The act.
Warhol’s grainy video Factory Diary from that day (on the adjacent wall) captures some of the costume changes and excitement of the day. Warhol remembered that the whole staff stopped work to watch her that day, as ‘whenever Liza walks into a room everything stops and people wait for the act to begin’.
Warhol selected one Polaroid from the day as the basis for his screenprinted portrait paintings of Minnelli, as well as for a small number of screenprints on paper (see adjacent work), and the cover of her record Liza Minnelli Live at Carnegie Hall.
Julie Robinson, Senior Curator, Prints, Drawings & Photographs
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Andy Warhol and Photography: A Social Media
Art Gallery of South Australia, 3 March 2023 – 14 May 2023 -
Public Image, Private Lives: Family, Friends and Self in Photography
Art Gallery of South Australia, 5 February 2016 – 18 September 2016