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Edition 7L
August 2007
On Sale: August 1, 2007
232 pages
ISBN: 3865214037
EAN: 9783865214034
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Non-Fiction Photography
Out documents an era at once so close and so far away: the
wild, glamorous, disco-and-drugs decade between the end of
the Vietnam war and the advent of AIDS, when, in certain
parts of Manhattan, every night was party night. As the
editor of Andy Warhol's Interview from 1971 to 1983, Bob
Colacello was perfectly placed to record this life of art
openings, movie premieres, cocktail parties, dinner parties,
charity balls and after-hours clubs; he wrote about the best
of them in a monthly column called "Out." In 1975, Swiss art
dealer Thomas Ammann gave Colacello one of the first
miniature 35mm cameras, a black plastic Minox small enough
to hide in his jacket pocket, and Colacello began snapping
photographs too. Sneaking a shot of Henry Kissinger holding
forth at a dinner party, or Bianca Jagger letting loose at
Studio 54, Colacello was in the middle of the action, "an
accidental photographer" more akin to a secret agent than
any typical paparazzo. With their skewed angles,
multilayered compositions, and moody lighting, his images
have an immediacy and grit not often found in the work of
professional party photographers. And what subjects! Diana
Vreeland, Calvin Klein, Jack Nicholson, Richard Gere, Cher,
Raquel Welch, Mick Jagger, Diane von Furstenberg, Barry
Diller, Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent, Nan Kempner, Robert
Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and always Warhol himself.
Because space in Interview was limited, only a handful of
Colacello's pictures were published each month. Most of
those collected in Out have never been seen before.
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