Beschreibung
My camera pretty much is a paintbrush, says Christopher Makos. The man whom Andy Warhol called the most modern photographer in America joined forces with his longtime creative partner Paul Solberg. While travelling, they realized that they were interested in the same themes and, as something of a joke, decided to photograph the same things. A well healed seasoned career of Makos colliding with a fresh an instinctual talent of Solberg, an exchange that informed there was something interesting and unusual going on, before it was defined as collaboration. With cameras in hand, their mutual bike rides turned to car trips and car trips turned into plane rides. Back and forth in cowboy country USA, they went out west. The real US cowboys, the Denver Rodeo, the impressive mountain formations of Colorado: In their candid photos, they capture their view on Americas hostile nature, adorable people, vintage rituals, and rusty vehicles. This largescale photography and art book is printed on finest paper in Italy."
Autorenportrait
"Christopher Makos was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, grew up in California, and moved to New York after high school. He studied architecture in Paris and briefly worked as an apprentice to Man Ray. Andy Warhol, Makos's good friend and frequent portrait subject, called Makos "the most modern photographer in America." His photographs have been exhibited in galleries and museums such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, the Tate Modern in London, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the IVAM in Valencia (Spain) and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. He did group shows together with Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Man Ray. His pictures have appeared in magazines and newspapers, including Paris Match and Wall Street Journal. He is the author of several important books, like the volumes "Warhol/Makos in Context" (2007), "Andy Warhol China 1982" (2007) and "Christopher Makos Polaroids" (2009)."
