Bob Colacello’s OUT Captures High-Contrast Public Figures

Bob Colacello, one of the most creative biographical writers of his time, has released a collection of his photographs from his time as the editor of Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine (1971-1983).

The compilation is titled OUT, which was also the title of the monthly column to which he contributed, writing about art openings, movie premieres, cocktail parties, charity parties, and night clubs.

Colacello used a camera small enough to hide in his jacket pocket, sneaking candid photos of well-known people at all the glamorous events he attended during the disco-and-drugs decade (late ’70s to early ’80s). Most of the photos included are never-before-seen accounts of the wild culture.

He became an inadvertent photographer, snapping impromptu black-and-white photos of Calvin Klein, Jack Nicholson, Mick Jagger, Yves Saint Laurent, Liza Minelli, Bianca Jagger, Roy Lichtenstein, Henry Kissinger, and naturally, Andy Warhol.

The Columbia University alumnus currently contributes to Vanity Fair and has written a vast amount of personality profiles about such public figures as Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles, Liza Minelli, Estee Lauder, Doris Duke, and Naomi Campbell.

His most notable biographical works are Ronnie and Nancy: Their Path to The White House, 1911-1980 and his memoir of working with Andy Warhol, Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up. The New York Times named the memoir one of the best accounts ever written about Warhol.

OUT
Bob Colacello
Paperback, 232 pages
$50.00, Edition 7L/D.A.P., Inc.
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