Miles Fiterman
August 1975
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View on museum website →Medium
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
2016.22.240
Art Historical Context
**Miles Fiterman**, a 1975 dye diffusion transfer print (Polacolor) by Andy, captures the intimate scale of instant photography with its modest dimensions of 9.5 × 7.3 cm. Created using Polaroid's innovative Polacolor process, which produces vibrant, self-developing images through dye diffusion, this photograph exemplifies Warhol's fascination with celebrity and portraiture in the mid-1970s. Warhol amassed thousands of such snapshots, often as studies for his iconic silkscreen paintings, blending mechanical reproduction with personal immediacy. As a cornerstone of Pop Art, Warhol democratized...
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 ...