The Velvet Underground New York
| Artist | Gerard Malanga |
| About/Subject | The Velvet Underground |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | London/Paris/NY |
| First Printing | 2016 |
| Pages / Font | 50 pages |
| Chapters | 1 / Gerard Malanga Interview 2015 2 / "The Velvet Underground Before & After" © Gerard Malanga from "In Remembrance of Things Past", to be published |
| Notes | Nothing predestined Gerard Malanga, a working class son of immigrants in the Bronx, to become Warhol’s main collaborator during his most prosperous period. Initially recruited in 1963 for his skill in screen‐printing, he took part in all the key works of the 1960s, from the paintings to the magazine Interview, to the screen-tests, films and the Exploding Plastic Inevitable with The Velvet Underground. His industriousness and his curiosity made him a central character at the Factory, collaborator but also right‐hand man, go‐to person. Paradoxically, Gerard Malanga was also a discrete figure to the extent that he hid numerous talents. His talent for poetry, but also for cinema, publishing and photography – it was he who, covertly, shot the famous photographs of the Velvet Underground in Los Angeles in 1966. Other full size photographs in this book feature William Burroughs, Robert Mapplethorpe, Patti Smith, Lou Reed solo, the first pictures gerard Malanga took when he was 11. Chapter 1 is an in-depth interview with Gerard Malanga about his roller coaster life as artist and witness of NY's most flamboyant side, where he bumped into the Velvet Underground. Chapter 2 is a chapter from Gerard Malanga's Memoirs (to be published), dedicated to the Velvet Underground. |
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