Self-Portrait

1963–64

Not on view

Returned to lender

This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.

Andy Warhol’s photo booth self-portrait is one of his earliest forays into photography, a medium that would dominate his artistic practice from 1963 onward. He made this multiframe photograph for a Harper’s Bazaar article on new talent in the New York art world. To create the portraits, Warhol took his subjects to Times Square with a sack of coins and inserted his sitter and a quarter into the photo booth, which automatically generated the sequential photographs. The article used the unaltered portrait strips, which looked like nothing else in any American magazine at the time. The photographs heralded the birth of image repetition, seriality, and graphic informality in 1960s art.

Artwork Details

Overview

Exhibition History

Title: Self-Portrait
Artist: Andy Warhol (American, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 1928–1987 New York)
Date: 1963–64
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: 7 3/4 × 2 1/2 in. (19.7 × 6.4 cm)
Framed: 14 1/2 in. × 7 7/8 in. × 1 in. (36.8 × 20 × 2.5 cm)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Promised Gift of Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary
Curatorial Department: Photographs