The artist Andy Warhol is pictured from his shoulders up in this black and white portrait photograph by Robert Mapplethorpe. Warhol stands with his back against a white wall perpendicular to the picture plane, turning his head to the right in three-quarter profile to face the camera. He wears a polo neck jumper underneath a black suit jacket, and his customary poker-straight white wig, which has flyaway hairs sticking out in all directions. Warhol’s expression is apathetic, although his eyes are fixed on the camera and his lips are slightly parted.
This photograph was printed in 1990, the year after Mapplethorpe died, but the shot was actually taken in 1983. Mapplethorpe took four portraits of Warhol during the artist’s lifetime, all of ...
