America

A collection of photographs and writings by a beloved icon, musing on commercialism, fame, beauty and the country he loved.

“He created his own universe and became its star” - David Cronenberg, Guardian

Andy Warhol carried a camera with him everywhere he went. Taken from ten years of extraordinary shots, Andy Warhol’s America aspires to the strange beauty and staggering contradictions of the country itself. Exploring his greatest obsessions, including image and celebrity, he photographs wrestlers and politicians, the beautiful wealthy and the disenfranchised poor, Capote with the fresh scars of a facelift and Madonna hiding beneath a brunette bob. He writes about the country he loves, wishing he had died when he was shot, commercialism, fame, and beauty.

An America without Warhol is almost as inconceivable as Warhol without America. This touching, witty tribute is the great artist of the superficial at his most deeply personal.