Andy Warhol Family Album

Warhol's intimate photographs of family and friends, rarely seen publicly.

Why go

The exhibition presents rarely seen works from the Whitney's collection—hundreds of candid and posed Polaroids that reveal Warhol's compulsive self-documentation and his use of the camera as a tool for both portraiture and daily life, from Montauk to Europe.

What to expect

Polaroid photographs (Big Shot and SX-70 models) from Warhol's personal Holson albums, including portraits of collaborators and celebrities, candid shots from his home, travel documentation, and images of his dog Archie, displayed on Floor 7.

Things to know

• Warhol carried a camera everywhere, taking hundreds of thousands of photographs during his career.
• He adopted the Polaroid as his primary tool by the early 1970s, using both the Big Shot model and the portable SX-70.
• The exhibition draws from one of six Holson albums Warhol maintained as a personal archive, named for the generic product type: the 'family
• Organized by Jennie Goldstein, Marion Boulton Stroud Curator of the Collection, and Roxanne Smith, Jennifer Rubio Assistant Curator.
• Part of an ongoing Whitney initiative to present rarely seen collection works, following exhibitions of Wanda Gág, Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe,
• Significant support provided by Susan and John Hess.