Andy Warhol's Polaroids At UC Berkeley Art Museum

Andy Warhol reportedly once said, "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs."

From 1970 to 1987 the King of Pop Art took an enormous amount of Polaroid photos of celebrities, rock stars, and curious personalities and added them to a growing collection of art work centered on the idea of art as spectacle. In 2007, the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program began, and over 28,500 of his photographs were donated to museums across the U.S. The UC Berkeley Art Museum draws from the enigmatic artist's vast collection to present its new exhibition, simply titled, "Andy Warhol: Polaroids."

See a few examples in the slideshow below, and tell us your favorites in the comments section.

Andy Warhol Polaroids / MATRIX 240 are on view from January 27 through May 20, 2012 at UC Berkeley Art Museum.

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Comments

[RandyMan7027]

10:50 PM on 01/26/2012

Lazy photographic method perfect for a lazy "artist" like Warhola. No chance for any darkroom artistry of the sort practiced by Ansel Adams.

TIME Magazine art critic Robert Hughes said he found Warhol to be "one of the stupidest people I ever met." When asked why he replied "because he had nothing to say."

[saultydog42]

10:27 AM on 01/24/2012

Just what I needed.

[loki]

10:21 AM on 01/24/2012

whoever wrote the HP headline was obviously not old enough to remember Polaroids if they think that they were "cool" until Andy Warhol.

[glassguy2]

09:49 AM on 01/24/2012

wow,crappy pics

[GBYACHT]

11:05 AM on 01/24/2012

Attach any object to his name and it's famous. My 10 yr. old grand kid could have taken those photos with an old camera.

[namaholston]

09:10 AM on 01/24/2012

While I am aware "art is in the eye of the beholder" I have never beheld Andy Warhol's stuff as art. I would classify it as gimmickry which a lot of rich women fell for.

[Bucket-Of-Love]

10:10 PM on 01/24/2012

Misuse of the phrase, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder".

[Pauly Pigeon]

08:25 PM on 01/23/2012

Bill Squier had an epic mullet.

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