Friday, October 19, 2007

Warhol's Screen Tests

From the Warhol Organization:
Warhol’s Screen Tests are revealing portraits of hundreds of different individuals, shot between 1963 and 1966. When asked to pose, subjects were lit and filmed by Warhol’s stationary 16mm Bolex camera on silent, black and white, 100-foot rolls of film. Each Screen Test is exactly the same length, lasting only as long as the roll of film. The standard formula of subject and camera remaining almost motionless for the duration of the film, results in a “living portrait.”


Edie Sedgewick's Screen test:



Salvador Dali's (rephotographed):



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