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    Christopher Makos Photographs Warhol, Minnelli, Haring, Basquiat

    Christopher Makos
    | 09/18/20

    Christopher Makos Photographs Warhol, Minnelli, Haring, Basquiat

    A career overview featuring mostly unseen work from the artist’s life includes portraits of the world's biggest celebs, along with male nudes.

    Christopher Makos

    "Andy and Liza Kissing", 1978 8 x 10" vintage gelatin silver print.

    Daniel Cooney Fine Art featured a solo exhibition by Christopher Makos titled "Dirty," from September to November 2020. A career overview featuring mostly unseen work from every stage of the artist's life, "Dirty" featured a selection of 40 vintage photographs, collages, and assemblages that celebrated the daring, decadent, and delectable moments of life with equal panache.

    Reveling in the spirit of freedom, innovation, and creativity that has defined Makos's oeuvre for half a century, "Dirty" featured photographs of Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Debbie Harry, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Richard Hell, Liza Minnelli, and John Lennon alongside a swath of sumptuous male nudes and figurative studies. This is in addition to original contact sheets, vintage Polaroids, silver oxide prints, gelatin silver prints and collages.

    The works featured in "Dirty" reflected the advice Makos received while apprenticing with Man Ray in Fregene, Italy, at the outset of his artistic journey in 1976 -- "Obey your instinct." Possessed with the innate gift to fuse art and cultural artifact in a singular work, Makos came to the notice of kindred spirit Andy Warhol and the two quickly became lifelong collaborators and confidantes. Makos taught Warhol photography; Warhol taught Makos the business of art. Together the dynamic duo would travel the globe, enjoying the pleasures of mutual camaraderie.

    Find out more at danielcooneyfineart.com

    "Good Times", 1978 4 x 4” Unique vintage Polaroid

    Christopher Makos

    "Debbie Harry", 1987 Unique vintage gelatin silver print

    Christopher Makos

    "Keith Haring and Juan Dubose", 1980’s 8 x 10” vintage gelatin silver print

    Christopher Makos

    "Christopher Reeve, Superman", 1982 20 x 16” Unique vintage gelatin silver print

    Christopher Makos

    "Andy In Curly Wig Contact Sheet", 1981 Unique vintage gelatin silver print

    Christopher Makos

    "Willie Gault", early 80’s Unique vintage gelatin silver print

    Christopher Makos

    "Boy With Braces", 1978

    Christopher Makos

    "Andy Massage", 1983 10 x 8” Vintage gelatin silver print

    Christopher Makos

    "CBGB Collage (Richard Hell and Patti Smith)", 1977 8 x 10” Unique vintage gelatin silver print collage

    Christopher Makos

    "Keith Haring and Juan Dubose At The Piers", 1980’s 8 x 10” vintage gelatin silver print

    Christopher Makos

    "Christopher Reeve and Andy for Interview", 1982 10 x 8” Vintage gelatin silver print

    Christopher Makos

    "Cigarette Butts", 1976 4 x 4” Unique vintage Polaroid

    Christopher Makos

    "Craig Sheffer", 1980’s 10 x 8” Vintage gelatin silver print

    Christopher Makos

    "Debbie Harry At My Apartment, West Village", 1976 8 x 10” vintage gelatin silver print

    Christopher Makos

    "Andy Kissing Lennon", 1978 11 x 14” Vintage gelatin silver print

    Christopher Makos

    "Debbie Harry Stand Up", 1993 Four Unique vintage Polaroids

    Christopher Makos

    "Iggy Pop", 1981 8 x 10” unique vintage gelatin silver print with pencil markings

    Christopher Makos

    "Johnny Germain", Four unique 10 x 8” vintage gelatin silver prints (20 x 16” total)

    Christopher Makos

    "Liza And Lennon Twice", 1978 8 x 10” Vintage Gelatin silver print

    Christopher Makos

    "Michael Kenny, Warhol Landscape I", 1981 8 x 10” Vintage gelatin silver print

    Christopher Makos

    "Michael Kenny, Warhol Landscape II", 1981 8 x 10” Vintage gelatin silver print

    Christopher Makos

    "Monique Van Vooren", 1978 4 x 4” Unique vintage Polaroid

    Christopher Makos

    "David Sabadera In Silver And Bronze" 10 x 8” Unique vintage silver oxide print

    Christopher Makos

    "Queenie", 1977 11 x 14” Vintage gelatin silver print

    Christopher Makos

    "Randall Booty", 1993 4 x 4” Unique vintage Polaroid

    Christopher Makos

    "Tattoo", 1976 4 x 4” Unique vintage Polaroid

    Christopher Makos

    "Short Shorts", 1977 4 x 4” Unique vintage Polaroid

    Christopher Makos

    "White Bikini, Miami", 1993 Four Unique vintage Polaroids

    Christopher Makos

    "Windsor Park, UK, 1991", Four unique 10 x 8” vintage gelatin silver prints (20 x 16” total)

    Christopher Makos

    "Side Eye", 2020

    Christopher Makos

    Christopher Makos is the author of 17 books including White Trash (1977), Warhol/Makos In Context (2007), Christopher Makos Polaroids (2009) and Everything: The Black and White Monograph (2014). His work has been published in Interview, Rolling Stone, House & Garden, Connoisseur, New York Magazine, Esquire, Genre and People. His works have been exhibited at the Tate Modern, London, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The National Gallery, Washington, D.C., and The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao.

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