POPism (50 page)

Emile de Antonio following a demonstration in the late sixties at the U.S. Senate.
I got my art training from De
.
PHOTO:
LORRAINE GRAY.

Ivan Karp at the Factory.
People loved Ivan's style of art dealing
—
loose and personal. We went to rock-and-roll shows together
,
PHOTO:
FACTORY FOTO.

 

Henry Geldzahler about to be filmed.
Henry and I talked on the phone for five hours out of every twenty-four
,
PHOTO: FACTORY FOTO

Jasper Johns and Andy.
I always wondered what Jasper really thought of me
.
PHOTO: FACTORY FOTO
.

 

Andy and Gerard Malanga.
Gerard wrote poetry and he'd take me around to lots of readings in the Village
.
PHOTO: STEPHEN SHORE
.

Right: Chuck Wein.
PHOTO: STEPHEN SHORE.
Below: Edie Sedgwick and Andy at the Scene.
Edie dyed her hair silver to match mine and the photographers couldn't tell us apart
.
PHOTO: FACTORY FOTO.

 

Nico.
She'd been in
La Dolce Vita.
Someone said she sang like an “IBM computer with a Garbo accent.”
PHOTO: PAUL MORRISSEY
.

Photographers never had to arrange for “sittings” at the Factory
—
all they had to do was come by and shoot
,
PHOTO: STEPHEN SHORE.

 

Vera Cruise.
PHOTO: FACTORY FOTO.

Andy, Fred Hughes, Patrick, and Taylor Mead.
Taylor called me “incompetent” as a filmmaker in '64 and went off to live in Paris
.
PHOTO: FACTORY FOTO
.

 

 

Andy in the hospital after he was shot.
I was in surgery for about five hours. At one point I died and they brought me back. For days I wasn't sure if I really was alive or not
.
PHOTO: FACTORY FOTO.