East 66th St NYC 1987

​​Pictured: Andy Warhol’s Wig and Glasses photographed in his New York City apartment.
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​Soon after Warhol’s death photographer David Gamble was permitted access to Warhol’s East 66th street House, Factory and Warehouse. There, he captured the placement of Warhol’s belongings as the artist had lived with them over the years. Rather than simply documenting the space, Gamble’s careful still-lifes capture the humanity and fierce individuality of the artist. ​

The wig series consists of four images representing Warhol’s beliefs in Life and Death. The two statuettes of Rameses and Isis, the god’s of external existence and the god of money, and the watch representing material possession and Time. Each image is slightly different in content.

East 66th St NYC 1987

​​Pictured: Andy Warhol’s Wig, Glasses, and Watch photographed in his New York City apartment.
​
​Soon after Warhol’s death photographer David Gamble was permitted access to Warhol’s East 66th street House, Factory and Warehouse. There, he captured the placement of Warhol’s belongings as the artist had lived with them over the years. Rather than simply documenting the space, Gamble’s careful still-lifes capture the humanity and fierce individuality of the artist. ​

The wig series consists of four images representing Warhol’s beliefs in Life and Death. The two statuettes of Rameses and Isis, the god’s of external existence and the god of money, and the watch representing material possession and Time. Each image is slightly different in content.

East 66th St NYC 1987

​​Pictured: Andy Warhol’s Wig, Glasses, Watch and Money photographed in his New York City apartment.
​
​Soon after Warhol’s death photographer David Gamble was permitted access to Warhol’s East 66th street House, Factory and Warehouse. There, he captured the placement of Warhol’s belongings as the artist had lived with them over the years. Rather than simply documenting the space, Gamble’s careful still-lifes capture the humanity and fierce individuality of the artist. ​

The wig series consists of four images representing Warhol’s beliefs in Life and Death. The two statuettes of Rameses and Isis, the god’s of external existence and the god of money, and the watch representing material possession and Time. Each image is slightly different in content.

East 66th St NYC 1987

​​Pictured: Andy Warhol’s Wig, Glasses, and Money photographed in his New York City apartment.
​
​Soon after Warhol’s death photographer David Gamble was permitted access to Warhol’s East 66th street House, Factory and Warehouse. There, he captured the placement of Warhol’s belongings as the artist had lived with them over the years. Rather than simply documenting the space, Gamble’s careful still-lifes capture the humanity and fierce individuality of the artist. ​

The wig series consists of four images representing Warhol’s beliefs in Life and Death. The two statuettes of Rameses and Isis, the god’s of external existence and the god of money, and the watch representing material possession and Time. Each image is slightly different in content.

East Side NYC 1987

4×5 in Format Film

​Soon after Warhol’s death photographer David Gamble was permitted access to Warhol’s East 66th street House, Factory and Warehouse. There, he captured the placement of Warhol’s belongings as the artist had lived with them over the years. Rather than simply documenting the space, Gamble’s careful still-lifes capture the humanity and fierce individuality of the artist. ​

Andy Warhol’s Warehouse. Pictured:

• Kenny Scharf, Painted Figure, Glad Man and Sad Man.
• Carved and Painted Pine Circus Figure: The Pugalist, American, circa 1870
• Stacks of colorful Fiesta dishware

​East 66th Street NYC, 1987

6×7 Format Film

​Pictured: Andy Warhol’s Coke Bottle and VHS Tapes on the floor of his bedroom.

Soon after Warhol’s death photographer David Gamble was permitted access to Warhol’s East 66th street House, Factory and Warehouse. There, he captured the placement of Warhol’s belongings as the artist had lived with them over the years. Rather than simply documenting the space, Gamble’s careful still-lifes capture the humanity and fierce individuality of the artist. ​

“What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it”. – Andy Warhol

Print on Paper

The Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of Tibet, promoting essential human values such as compassion, forgiveness, and tolerance. As such, he is a cultural synecdoche for peace and acceptance, encompassing a vision of humanity at its most harmonious. However, it is important to note that the Dalai Lama is still human in nature, and David Gamble’s image of him relaxing and covering his face grounds him in humanity. He appears almost like a celebrity hiding his face from paparazzi, adding a realistic and potentially comedic edge to him. The Dalai Lama is the perfect addition to Humanity, representing higher moral human idealisms while walking the earth as a human being, just like any one of us.

East 66th Street NYC, 1987

6×7 Format Film

​Pictured: Andy Warhol’s Teddy Bear and a pair of Cowboy boots found in his bedroom.

Soon after Warhol’s death photographer David Gamble was permitted access to Warhol’s East 66th street House, Factory and Warehouse. There, he captured the placement of Warhol’s belongings as the artist had lived with them over the years. Rather than simply documenting the space, Gamble’s careful still-lifes capture the humanity and fierce individuality of the artist.

East 66th Street NYC 1987

6×7 Format Film

Soon after Warhol’s death photographer David Gamble was permitted access to Warhol’s East 66th street House, Factory and Warehouse. There, he captured the placement of Warhol’s belongings as the artist had lived with them over the years. Rather than simply documenting the space, Gamble’s careful still-lifes capture the humanity and fierce individuality of the artist. ​

Situated in the lower ground floor of his NYC home, the kitchen was where Warhol ate every meal—a simple environment yet filled with the artist’s distinctive touch that made his artwork so vibrant and original. Gamble’s photograph is a moment captured in time. An unprecedented domestic dimension in the life of the artist—a somber image dotted with reminders of the artistic genius the world knew. From the branded detergent packages and the bold colors of the Fiesta dishware echoing the pallet of his famous screen-prints, to the iconic can of Campbell soup by the sink—the kitchen is a visual catalog of the colors, forms, and repetitional rhythms that defined the Warhol’s iconic works; it is a place where fragments of Warhol’s creativity tell a story of an artist whose inspiration truly came from the simplest, and yet so very important, everyday objects of popular culture.