About the Photographer One of the pioneers of Pop Art, Andy
Warhol is known for destabilizing the division between consumer
culture and fine art and for undermining conventional notions of
originality. Iconic works such as his silkscreen reproductions
of Campbell's soup cans and sculptural replicas of retail
packaging—most notably Brillo boxes—adopt the mass-produced
forms of consumer products in a deadpan manner. In other works,
such as silkscreen paintings of legends like Marilyn Monroe,
Warhol tapped into the growing cult of celebrity. Ultimately,
Warhol's expansive practice encompassed numerous artistic media
and merged the roles of artist, impresario, and businessman, as
the head of a studio he dubbed The Factory. Warhol's photographs
were rarely exhibited during his lifetime, but the medium played
a central role in his practice from early on. Throughout his
career he made photographs in different formats and used
photographic images as the basis for other works. More
generally, he drew inspiration from