Amphetamine-loving former deb and underground icon Brigid Berlin aka Brigid Polk obsessively documented life in the Warhol social circle with her Poloroid camera throughout the ’60s and ’70s. Her extensive collection of “sloppy, deadpan” snapshots of Nico, Lou Reed, Viva, Candy Darling, Roy Lichtenstein, and Dennis Hopper were recently digitized and included in the upcoming book Brigid Berlin: Polaroids by Reel Art Press.
Says the New Yorker:
Berlin is clear that she never considered herself an artist per se, or even much of an art appreciator; Factory lore has it that when Warhol offered her a painting as a gift, she rejected it, saying she’d prefer a washing machine. “No picture ever mattered,” she’s said. “There was never any subject that I was after. It was clicking it and pulling it out that I loved.”
In an introduction to the new book, Bob Colacello, the former editor of Interview, writes,
“Brigid’s need to rebel has always been matched by her need to document her rebelliousness, and the overlapping of these two compulsions is what gives her work meaning beyond its curiosity value. In recording life, she captured our times.”
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