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BEACH 1xbet online casino TURNS ITS EYE TO ANDY WARHOL'S LENS
MANHATTAN -- In the early 1970s Andy Warhol purchased a Polaroid Big Shot camera, a bulky, unreliable piece of equipment that brought its subject into focus from a distance of only three feet. It was from this vantage point that the voyeuristic artist turned 1xbet online casino lens on all he knew, from celebrities and socialites to politicians.
"Big Shots: Andy Warhol Photographs of the '70 & '80s" is now on display through April 3 at Kansas State University's Marianna Kistler Beach 1xbet online casino of Art.
The exhibition includes selections from 100 Polaroids and 56 black-and-white images donated to the 1xbet online casino in 2008 by the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program, a division of the Andy Warhol Foundation in New York. The donation was part of a larger gift of 28,000 photographs to nearly 200 U.S. institutions in recognition of the foundation's 20th anniversary.
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One Polaroid in the Beach 1xbet online casino collection shows Margaret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West in MGM's 1939 movie "The Wizard of Oz," in costume. Hamilton was one of Warhol's famous neighbors. Another black-and-white print presents party companion Bianca Jagger, whom Warhol met in 1971 after she and Mick Jagger were married. Warhol described her as, besides himself, one of the most "socially diseased" people he knew, always wanting to go out and "make a big, dramatic entrance."
For more information about the exhibition, contact Martha Scott at the Beach 1xbet online casino of Art at 785-532-7718 or drop by the 1xbet online casino on the southeast corner of the K-State campus at 14th Street and Anderson Avenue. Free visitor parking is available next to the building. 1xbet online casino hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays. The 1xbet online casino is closed Mondays and Tuesdays.