The Photographers' Gallery, London
William Burroughs's photographs offer real insight into his written work. Lynch's and Warhol's images pale by comparison
"A picture just means I know where I was every minute," Andy Warhol once said. "That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary." In this instinct, Warhol was, as always, ahead of the game. One senses that he would have been very much at home in today's digitally driven, relentlessly mediated world where diaristic photography – the recording of the everyday – is a predominant form.
Likewise William Burroughs, a writer who photographed the world around him, wherever he was, whether New York, London or Tangiers and processed the results at the nearest chemist's. Both were drawn to the disposable nature of photography but, paradoxically, took great care to arrange their images – in Burroughs's case, into meticulous collages. Warhol's embrace of photography, though, was central to his wider artistic practice,...
William Burroughs's photographs offer real insight into his written work. Lynch's and Warhol's images pale by comparison
"A picture just means I know where I was every minute," Andy Warhol once said. "That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary." In this instinct, Warhol was, as always, ahead of the game. One senses that he would have been very much at home in today's digitally driven, relentlessly mediated world where diaristic photography – the recording of the everyday – is a predominant form.
Likewise William Burroughs, a writer who photographed the world around him, wherever he was, whether New York, London or Tangiers and processed the results at the nearest chemist's. Both were drawn to the disposable nature of photography but, paradoxically, took great care to arrange their images – in Burroughs's case, into meticulous collages. Warhol's embrace of photography, though, was central to his wider artistic practice,...
- 1/19/2014
- by Sean O'Hagan
- The Guardian - Film News
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