A London

at Ping

Andy Warhol had photography running through his whole practice. From the screen prints of famous people, to the soup cans, he used photography in a diaristic way taken one to three films a day. A combination of expressions about life; an interest in the non-hierarchical of contemporary life and everyday life things, and also on the reproducibility of the image. His work alludes to the reproducibility of the image, like a wall of mirrors, of photographic reproduction. By stitching images together (like the ones of the ice cream van, in the photo below) he produces a unique art work. With a sculptural quality. With him we see "famous" people laying together with, positioned on the same level of recognisable objects, brands, those desirous things/wants that define the society where we find ourselves immersed in on an historical level. He said things about life, sex, playing, felling both ways with music and things we can't say about food and about you, it is about two, three, the night and day be together.

at Rum Kitchen

Andy Warhol's Ice Cream van photographs at The Photographers' Gallery