About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 78. Chapters: Andy Warhol, Man Ray, Jacob Riis, Diane Arbus, Alfred Stieglitz, Annie Leibovitz, Barbara Rosenthal, Margaret Bourke-White, Michael Dweck, Robert Mapplethorpe, Mark Shaw, Richard Avedon, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Doris Ulmann, Suza Scalora, Indrani, Irving Penn, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Kala Mandrake, Arthur Rothstein, Brian Wood, Nat Finkelstein, Paul Strand, William Klein, Jah Jah, Josef Breitenbach, Bert Andrews, Max Vadukul, Aaron Siskind, Zoe Leonard, Johnny Rozsa, James Van Der Zee, Francesco Scavullo, John McBride, Howard Schatz, Brian Ulrich, Arthur Leipzig, Arthur Tress, Deloss Barnum, John Veltri, David Scherman, Roxanne Lowit, Chris Corradino, Michael O'Brien, Warwick Saint, Richard Drew, Paul Raphaelson, Clay Enos, Nick Koudis, Charles Eisenmann, Joe Oppedisano, Alfred Cheney Johnston. Excerpt: Andrew Warhola, Jr. (August 6, 1928 - February 22, 1987), known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. After a successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous worldwide for his work as a painter, avant-garde filmmaker, record producer, author, and member of highly diverse social circles that included Bohemian street people, distinguished intellectuals, Hollywood celebrities and wealthy patrons. Warhol has been the subject of numerous retrospective exhibitions, books, and feature and documentary films. He coined the widely used expression "15 minutes of fame." In his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The Andy Warhol Museum exists in memory of his life and artwork. The highest price ever paid for a Warhol painting is US$100 million for a 1963 canvas titled Eight Elvises. The private transaction was reported in a 2009 article in The Economist, which described Warhol as the "bellwether of the art mark...
