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Bob Colacello: OUT by Bob Colacello
As the editor of Andy Warhol’s Interview from 1971 to 1983, Bob Colacello was perfectly placed to record a life of art openings, movie premieres, cocktail parties, dinner parties, charity balls and after-hours clubs; he wrote about the best of them in a monthly column called “Out.” In 1975 Colacello was given one of the first miniature 35mm cameras, a black plastic Minox small enough to hide in his jacket pocket, and he began snapping photographs. Sneaking a shot of Henry Kissinger holding forth at a dinner party, or Bianca Jagger letting loose at Studio 54, Colacello was in the middle of the action, “an accidental photographer” more akin to a secret agent than any typical paparazzo. What subjects! Diana Vreeland, Calvin Klein, Jack Nicholson, Richard Gere, Mick Jagger, Diane von Furstenberg, Barry Diller, Valentino, Yves Saint Laurent, Nan Kempner, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and always Warhol himself. Because space in Interview was limited, only a handful of Colacello’s pictures were published each month. Most of those collected in Out have never been seen before. Fabulous.
$31 www.amazon.com Publisher: Edition 7L (August 1, 2007)