Candy Darling
Brigid Berlin American
Not on view
Brigid Berlin was Andy Warhol’s best friend and one of the most prominent members of his Factory in the 1960s and 1970s. Although she never considered herself an artist, she obsessively documented the day-to-day activities of Warhol and his circle with a portable tape recorder and a Polaroid 360 camera. This Polaroid photograph, made in 1971 at Warhol’s first major retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is an intentional double exposure. Juxtaposed over Warhol’s silkscreen painting of the Mona Lisa, the ultimate art icon, is a portrait of the transgender actress and Warhol superstar Candy Darling, herself an icon of a radical new style of creative self-fashioning.
