Andy Warhol's Photography On Display At Stanford

PALO ALTO, CA -- The design of John Lennon's glasses, a front-row seat to Maria Shriver's wedding to Arnold Schwarzenegger -- Andy Warhol's photography reflects a sense of style like no other artist.

His work is archived for display in this rare opportunity to get up close and personal with the world of celebrity art.

The Stanford Libraries SearchWorks catalog, Spotlight gallery and Cantor's website carries the works of 3,600 photo contact sheets and 130,000 images, providing a unique view through the lens of Warhol's 35mm camera. Warhol was known to have taken his camera everywhere he went.

In 2014, the artist's black-and-white collection was bought by the Cantor from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc. through the help of Richard Meyer; Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor in Art History in the School of Humanities and Sciences and Peggy Phelan, Ann O'Day Maples Professor in the Arts; and the Denning Family Director of the Stanford Arts Institute.

"The Warhol contact sheets project is a wonderful example of how the university's libraries and the Cantor Arts Center can work together to benefit research and teaching," Stanford's deputy university librarian Mimi Calter said.

The images dating a decade range from "the mundane to the glamorous," Calter said.

An exhibition based on the collection is on view through Jan. 6, 2019.

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