#andy warhol's factory

[bitter69uk]

“She had a face that was so striking you had the choice of whether to call her beautiful or ugly. I happened to love the way she looked, and I was impressed by all the references she kept dropping to literature and politics. She talked constantly and she had the most tiresome voice I’d ever heard – it was incredible to me that one woman’s voice could convey so much tedium … We all loved Viva; we’d never seen anything like her, and from then on, it was just taken for granted that she’d be in whatever movie we did. She was funny, stylish and photogenic and she gave great interviews … And if a good way to get around the censors was to confuse them, then Viva was perfect for the times, because when she took her clothes off, there was always the question of whether her bony body was a turn-on or -off – the “prurience” was really in question there.”

/ Andy Warhol reminiscing about his leading lady Viva in his 1980 memoirs POPism: The Warhol Sixties /

Born on this day 85 years ago: superbly deadpan, often naked Warhol Superstar and long-term denizen of New York’s bohemian Chelsea Hotel (she now resides in Palm Springs) - Viva (née Janet Susan Mary Hoffmann, 23 August 1938)! I vividly recall watching her in Warhol’s perverse 1968 underground Western Lonesome Cowboys at The Scala Cinema in the early nineties. (At the beginning, the theatre was full. By the bitter end, there was only a hardcore of us left!). Outside of Warhol’s films, Viva impressed me as the heavily pregnant groupie Kris Kristofferson picks up in Cisco Pike (1972) and I particularly treasure Viva’s cameo appearance in 1982 cult oddity Forbidden Zone, in which she delivers with peerless nonchalance the killer line, “See you guys later – I need to change a Tampax.” Pictured: portrait of Viva by Richard Avedon, 1971.

[sonofshermy]

[robertxdarling]

Candy Darling, passport photo Courtesy of Cynthia Carr

[twixnmix]

Talking Heads photographed by Andy Warhol at the Factory in New York City, May 1976.

[christinwashere]

Lou Reed at Andy Warhols Factory, 1966.

[vintage-tigre]

Nico and Edie Sedgwick photographed at Andy Warhol’s The Factory, 1966

[nobrashfestivity]

Andy Warhol, Screentests

Susan, Jackie, Nico, Lou

[60sfactorygirl]

Andy Warhol and Gerard Malanga photographed at the factory together with Nico modeling an Andy Warhol ‘fragile dress’, mid 1960s.

Nico wearing the 'fragile dress’, mid 1960s.

[elixir]

Skulls Andy Warhol — 1976 four screenprints in color

[ginjointscafes]

Factory Girl (2006)

[sonofshermy]

[the-cricket-chirps]

Jamie Wyeth

Lunch At The Factory

2008

[robertxdarling]

Candy Darling by Anton Perich

[twixnmix]

John Waters and Fran Lebowitz photographed by Andy Warhol at the Factory in New York City, 1981.

[undergroundrockpress]

Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick at the Factory, NY 1966. Photo : Hervé Gloaguen.