This engaging catalogue features the photographic portraiture of the nineteenth-century Parisian Nadar and the twentieth-century New Yorker Andy Warhol. The two photographers have more in common than one might suppose, particularly as adroit manipulators who simultaneously promoted their own reputations and those of their subjects. Both men emerged from the Bohemias of their days to become photographers after following earlier artistic pursuits: Nadar as a writer and caricaturist, Warhol as a commercial graphic artist, then painter and filmmaker.

While celebrating their individual achievements, Nadar/Warhol: Paris/New York also illuminates the role of the visual artist in the conscious creation of celebrity and the changing nature of fame. Nadar photographed luminaries such as George Sand, Alexandre Dumas, Victor Hugo, Jean-Francois Millet, and Sarah Bernhardt. Warhol's celebrity sitters included Mick Jagger, Truman Capote, Jane Fonda, Robert Rauschenberg, Debbie Harry, Robert Mapplethorpe, and Liza Minnelli. These portraits and many more appear in this exhibition catalogue.

Judith Keller is curator and Gordon Baldwin is an associate curator in the J. Paul Getty Museum's Department of Photographs. Keller is the author of Walker Evans: The Getty Museum Collection. Baldwin is the author of Roger Fenton: Pasha and Bayadère and Looking at Photographs. The introduction is by Richard Brilliant, Anna S. Garbedian Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and the author of Portraiture.

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