Andy Warhol - His paintings and photography and influence on me.

Andy Warhol has had not only a huge influence on me as a photographer, but also on the popular culture we live in the everyday. His outlook on society and what we will become has been very accurate. From his obsession with celebrity to the films he made. If we look at the magazines on the newsagent shelves and the reality shows that we get engrossed in, surely we can see what warhol was trying to depict through his work.
The images below are example of Warhols work and image of the man himself . The images above are of Edie Segwick and were photographed by Warhol. The photobooth style of photography is an idea I want to incorporate into my exhibition. I would like to photograph models and then design (digitally) a photobooth layout.

(above) Warhol photobooth self portraits. I find this interesting as he gives nothing away about who he is. By wearing the sunglasses in the photobooth he is disguising himself.

This still is from Edie Sedgwicks screen test. I hope to find a subject that emmulates charisma in the film I intend to make.

Warhol's Mona Lisa Diptych

Warhol's screen prints represented icons, fame and the way he structured and produced his work depicted the mass production world we now live in. I am inspired by how Warhol appropriated others work and products and used them, I feel that my work is always influenced by other artists and I then add my own twist. That why I feel it is interesting for me to appropriate Warhol as it is slightly ironic .

Warhol's Campbells Soup

Warhol's Marilyn's