Gerard Malanga: Screen Tests - Portraits - Nudes: 1964-1996

by Gerard Malanga (Photographer), Debra Miller (Contributor), Marc Parent (Editor)

Gerard Malanga is known to have been a founding pillar of Andy Warhol's factory. His photographic works date back to 1955 when at age 12 he documented the Third Avenue El's last day in service and followed up several months later by photographing its dismantlement. Ten years later Gerard and Andy Warhol collaborated on nearly 500 individual three-minute "Screen Test" portraits, which resulted in a selection published by Kulchur Press (1967). A sampling from this book opens the retrospective here.

192 pages, Hardcover

First published February 2, 2000

Reviews

[Tosh]

Any book that has a portrait of my Dad in it is ok with me. But lets say it didn't have that portrait, this is still a remarkable (and inexpensive) volume of Gerard Malanga's remarkable photo portraits. Gerard, a poet as well as Andy Warhol's right-hand man during the golden Factory years has a great eye and this book mixes with the pop star (including the famous Iggy nude portrait) and various poets/writers as well as artists. A must-own really!

[Digi M]

As I read it, in the beginning I wondered whether this book was only good, because the subject matters are famous or whether he is a good photographer. Then towards the end of the book, I came to the conclusion that he is a very good photographer, and that the subjects trusted him enough to capture a good portrait, and that in turn makes him a good photographer.

[Ellison]

Features a collection of b/w portraits in which some famous people appear and some nudes. Occasional insight.