Ina Ginsburg
July 1983
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dye diffusion transfer print (Polacolor)
Dimensions
image: 9.5 × 7.3 cm (3 3/4 × 2 7/8 in.) sheet: 10.8 × 8.6 cm (4 1/4 × 3 3/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.)
Accession Number
2016.22.213
Art Historical Context
Andy Warhol's *Ina Ginsburg* (July 1983) the essence of the artist's enduring fascination with portraiture and celebrity culture. A pioneering figure in Pop Art, Warhol transformed everyday imagery into high art through his signature silkscreen prints of icons like Marilyn Monroe and Campbell's soup cans. By the 1980s, he increasingly turned to instant photography, producing intimate Polaroids of socialites, friends, and notables like Ina Ginsburg, whose identity evokes the glamorous New York society he orbited. This dye diffusion transfer print, known as Polacolor, exemplifies Warhol's innov...
About the Artist
Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol, born Andrew Warhola Jr. on August 6, 1928, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was the youngest of three sons to Carpatho-Rusyn immigrants Ondrej and Julia Warhola. His devout Byzantine Catholic family nurtured his artistic inclinations; bedridden at age eight with Sydenham's chorea, he drew from comic books and Hollywood magazines supplied by his artistic mother Julia, who later influenced ...