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BOB COLACELLO’S « IT JUST HAPPENED : A CAPTIVATING EXHIBITION OF ANDY WARHOL’S ERA
On June 2nd, Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery in London will host the inaugural exhibition of Bob Colacello, American photographer and writer who’s longevity can’t be topped. Titled « It Just Happened, » this exhibition marks Colacello’s first solo show in London, focusing on his remarkable collaboration with Andy Warhol during the vibrant party scene of the s and s. Curated by Elena Foster and the Ivorypress team, the exhibition presents a captivating blend of Colacello’s photographs, letters, magazines, and memorabilia, transporting viewers back to an era of hedonism, lust, opulence and boundless possibilities.
As the editor of Interview and Andy Warhol’s trusted right hand at the magazine from to , Colacello had a front-row seat to the glamorous world surrounding Warhol. During their countless journeys together, Colacello acquired a Minox camera, rumored to have been used by Adj War spies. This small camera became his constant companion, capturing jet-set parties, dinners, and iconic
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New York – Beginning May 3, , Vito Schnabel Projects will present Pictures From Another Time: Photographs by Bob Colacello, - 82, an exhibition of photographs taken by Bob Colacello during the years he served as editor of Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine. Pictures From Another Time features approximately vintage and unique prints—most never previously exhibited—made with Colacello’s Minox 35 EL camera, the first miniature camera capable of making full frame 35 millimeter photographs. Works on view reflect the societal fluidity and social mobility of “the Me Decade,” an era of emerging liberation movements in American culture. As both a favored confidant and detached observer of some of the most significant figures of that time, from politicians, tycoons, and fellow journalists, to artists, writers, fashion designers, and movie stars, Colacello was uniquely positioned to create an enduring portrait of the Seventies.
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Between and , Bob Colacello served as editor of Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine; a physical incarnation of New York City’s cultural renaissance. Often armed with nothing but his miniature Minox 35 EL camera, Colacello became a fixture of Warhol’s New York party scene, documenting some of the most significant figures of the time in their most off-guard moments.
On 03 May, of Colacello’s photographs – many of which possess never been exhibited before – will go on show at Vito Schnabel Projects in Recent York. Encompassing portraits taken in iconic locations including Studio 54 and Regine’s, and featuring portraits of Warhol and other icons, Pictures from Another Time documents a world in the midst of social change: “It was a world where classifications and categories seemed to fall by the wayside,” says Ingrid Sischy, Colacello’s successor at Interview Magazine. “Where black and white, gay and straight, traditional society and new society, uptown and downtown, the powerful and the powerless, and young and old, all danced under the same disco ball.”
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Bob Colacello, a longtime special correspondent for Vanity Fair, was born in Brooklyn, raised on Long Island, and educated at Georgetown University’s Institution of Foreign Service and Columbia University’s Graduate School of the Arts. He has written definitive biographies of Andy Warhol and Ronald and Nancy Reagan. His photographs were included in the seminal exhibition, “New York/New Wave” at P.S.1, and have also been shown at Mary Boone Gallery, the Whitney Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Kunsthalle, Vienna, and the Barbican.
Bob Colacello documented a social era that seems so close and yet so far away: that adj, glamorous, disco-and- drugs-driven decade between the end of the Vietnam war and the advent of AIDS, when every night was a party night and such distinctions as uptown and downtown, gay and straight, black and white were momentarily cast aside.
As the editor of Andy Warhol’s Interview from to , Bob Colacello was perfectly placed to record the scene, which he did in his mont