Bob Colacello’s Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up (rereleased this spring) is widely regarded as the essential look at life inside the Warhol parade. Colacello, the editor of Interview magazine from 1971 to 1983, had incredible access as Warhol’s employee, collaborator, and colleague. It makes for an entertaining, hilarious book, and it’s a multimedia project: Steven Kasher Gallery in Manhattan is currently running an exhibit of Colacello’s beautiful black-and-white photos from Inside Warhol’s World. Here are some of our faves, and if you’re in New York City, you have until May 24 to check out the full range of Colacello’s work.
Copyright Bob Colacello, courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York
Andy Warhol Having Breakfast in His Naples Hotel Suite Wearing His Usual Sleep Attire — Shirt, Jockey Shorts, and Supp-Hose Socks, 1976
Copyright Bob Colacello, courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York
Country Singer John Denver and Andy Warhol at the Aspen Home of John and Kimiko Powers. Behind Them are Three of the Twenty-Four Portraits Andy Warhol Painted of Kimiko in 1971
Copyright Bob Colacello, courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York
Out on the Town Bianca Jagger and Andy Warhol, ca 1980
Copyright Bob Colacello, courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York
Andy Warhol Signing Copies of Interview at Fiorucci on East 59th Street, with Truman Capote, Whom He had Idolized in His Youth and Became Friends with in the 1970s, 1977
Copyright Bob Colacello, courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York
Andy Warhol Backstage with Raquel Welch, Interview Cover Girl, After Her Performance in Broadway’s Woman of the Year, 1981
Copyright Bob Colacello, courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York
André Leon Talley, Steve Rubell, Co-Owner of Studio 54, and Andy Warhol at a Birthday Dinner Given for Bianca Jagger by Carolina and Reinaldo Herrera at Mortimers, 1981