Jacinda
2021
Graeme Lee Main
After
Shot Marilyns by Andy Warhol (1963)
Perhaps Warhol's most famous works are the screen prints of Marilyn Munroe, he produced these from a publicity photo of her 1953 film Niagara. A series of different coloured prints were stacked against a studio wall and shot with a pistol by performance artist Dorothy Podber. This created a stir in the art world which still reverberates around the auction houses today.
I chose to base my ‘Warhols’ on the then New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, whom I had been fortunate to meet and photograph in 2017. At the time I made this, she was very popular, but with the effects of a global financial downturn and Covid-19 fatigue her popularity waned.
Printed in Ink on Ilford Galerie Fine Art Paper.
Jacinda
2021
Graeme Lee Main
After
Shot Marilyns by Andy Warhol (1963)
Perhaps Warhol's most famous works are the screen prints of Marilyn Munroe, he produced these from a publicity photo of her 1953 film Niagara. A series of different coloured prints were stacked against a studio wall and shot with a pistol by performance artist Dorothy Podber. This created a stir in the art world which still reverberates around the auction houses today.
I chose to base my ‘Warhols’ on the then New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, whom I had been fortunate to meet and photograph in 2017. At the time I made this, she was very popular, but with the effects of a global financial downturn and Covid-19 fatigue her popularity waned.
Printed in Ink on Ilford Galerie Fine Art Paper.
