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Archive image © David McCabe
(Andy at work on a large flower painting, the Factory, NYC, spring 1965)
Andy Warhol © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Licensed by Bildrecht, Vienna 2019
Gregor Eggenberger, Set (Up), 2019
Archive image © David McCabe
(Andy at work on a large flower painting, the Factory, NYC, spring 1965)
Andy Warhol © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Licensed by Bildrecht, Vienna 2019
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Archive image © David McCabe
(Andy at work on a large flower painting, the Factory, NYC, spring 1965)
Andy Warhol © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Licensed by Bildrecht, Vienna 2019
Gregor Eggenberger, Set (Up), 2019
Archive image © David McCabe
(Andy at work on a large flower painting, the Factory, NYC, spring 1965)
Andy Warhol © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Licensed by Bildrecht, Vienna 2019
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“In 1964, Andy Warhol commissioned the 24 year old photographer David McCabe to document his life and work for one year.”
(Matthew Placek, A Walking History with David McCabe, 2019)
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February 25, 2019 | 12:08
Request: Andy (Warhol) at work on a large flower painting, the factory, NYC, spring 1965
“Dear David, looking for a photograph of an artist at work whose silhouette could ‘escape from’ the two-dimensionality of the photograph, I came across your Andy (Warhol) at work on a large flower painting. The intension is to produce a large-scale reproduction of this picture, cut out Andy, lift him up and integrate his erected figure into an urban setting.”
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Gregor Eggenberger, studies for Set (Up): Andy, Jana (cut-outs)
Archive image © David McCabe
(Andy at work on a large flower painting, the Factory, NYC, spring 1965)
Andy Warhol © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Licensed by Bildrecht, Vienna 2019
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Andy Warhol © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Bildrecht, Vienna 2019
Archive image © David McCabe (Andy at work on a large flower painting, the Factory, NYC, spring 1965)
Andy Warhol © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Bildrecht, Vienna 2019
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“In 1964, Andy Warhol commissioned the 24 year old photographer David McCabe to document his life and work for one year.”
(Matthew Placek, A Walking History with David McCabe, 2019)
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Andy Warhol © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Bildrecht, Vienna 2019
Archive image © David McCabe (Andy at work on a large flower painting, the Factory, NYC, spring 1965)
Andy Warhol © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Bildrecht, Vienna 2019
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February 25, 2019 | 12:08
Request: Andy (Warhol) at work on a large flower painting, the factory, NYC, spring 1965
“Dear David, looking for a photograph of an artist at work whose silhouette could ‘escape from’ the two-dimensionality of the photograph, I came across your Andy (Warhol) at work on a large flower painting. The intension is to produce a large-scale reproduction of this picture, cut out Andy, lift him up and integrate his erected figure into an urban setting.”
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Gregor Eggenberger, studies for Set (Up): Andy, Jana (cut-outs)
Archive image © David McCabe
(Andy at work on a large flower painting, the Factory, NYC, spring 1965)
Andy Warhol © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Licensed by Bildrecht, Vienna 2019
August 20, 2019 | 16:23
Request: high res scan David McCabe negative requirements
“Dear Junko,
We need a high-res scan of the original negative with the following specs:
- highest resolution possible by your scanner
(no upscaling in Photoshop)
- raw scan: no image editing applied, no retouching
- no USM / scan without sharpening
- 16 bit tiff file
We’ll reproduce this image approx. 200 x 300 cm
(approx. 79 x 118 inch).”
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Gregor Eggenberger
production detail from Set (Up),
Arsenalstraße, Quartier Belvedere, Vienna, 2019
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Archive image © David McCabe
(Andy at work on a large flower painting, the Factory, NYC, spring 1965)
Andy Warhol © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Licensed by Bildrecht, Vienna 2019
Gregor Eggenberger, Set (Up), 2019
Archive image © David McCabe
(Andy at work on a large flower painting, the Factory, NYC, spring 1965)
Andy Warhol © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Licensed by Bildrecht, Vienna 2019
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“In 1964 the photographer David McCabe was given the assignment of a lifetime when Andy Warhol hired him to follow him around New York and chronicle his exploits for a year, thereby participating in the manufacturing of Warhol’s public image and the enduring myth of downtown New York. […] McCabe shot thousands of black-and-white images that captured Warhol’s self-designed mythology in the making.” (Alex Vadukul, New York Times, March 23, 2021)
NY Times
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Quartier Belvedere, Vienna, 2019
Gregor Eggenberger, location check for Set (Up), Arsenalstraße,
Quartier Belvedere, Vienna, 2019
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production of Set (Up), Arsenalstraße, Quartier Belvedere, Vienna
Gregor Eggenberger, Weights, 2019
production of Set (Up), Arsenalstraße, Quartier Belvedere, Vienna
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Gregor Eggenberger
Set (Up), 2019
By reality we usually understand things that exist in three-dimensional space. Photography, however, is merely a copy, an excerpt from something which was situated in front of the camera at a particular time. But can both these parameters, the two- and the three-dimensional, actually be interwoven with each other—is there, consequently, some form of in-between? Or can the process of an image’s becoming even be reversed? With “Set (Up)” in any case an attempt is made to transfer the subject from a black-and-white archive image back into today’s reality, in a kind of picture puzzle, so that the subject and its ideas are (again) given space.
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“In 1964 the photographer David McCabe was given the assignment of a lifetime when Andy Warhol hired him to follow him around New York and chronicle his exploits for a year, thereby participating in the manufacturing of Warhol’s public image and the enduring myth of downtown New York. […] McCabe shot thousands of black-and-white images that captured Warhol’s self-designed mythology in the making.” (Alex Vadukul, New York Times, March 23, 2021)
NY Times
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Quartier Belvedere, Vienna, 2019
Gregor Eggenberger, location check for Set (Up), Arsenalstraße,
Quartier Belvedere, Vienna, 2019
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Gregor Eggenberger
production detail from Set (Up),
Arsenalstraße, Quartier Belvedere, Vienna, 2019
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production of Set (Up), Arsenalstraße, Quartier Belvedere, Vienna
Gregor Eggenberger, Weights, 2019
production of Set (Up), Arsenalstraße, Quartier Belvedere, Vienna
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Archive image © David McCabe
(Andy at work on a large flower painting, the Factory, NYC, spring 1965)
Andy Warhol © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Licensed by Bildrecht, Vienna 2019
Gregor Eggenberger, Set (Up), 2019
Archive image © David McCabe
(Andy at work on a large flower painting, the Factory, NYC, spring 1965)
Andy Warhol © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Licensed by Bildrecht, Vienna 2019
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Gregor Eggenberger
Set (Up), 2019
By reality we usually understand things that exist in three-dimensional space. Photography, however, is merely a copy, an excerpt from something which was situated in front of the camera at a particular time. But can both these parameters, the two- and the three-dimensional, actually be interwoven with each other—is there, consequently, some form of in-between? Or can the process of an image’s becoming even be reversed? With “Set (Up)” in any case an attempt is made to transfer the subject from a black-and-white archive image back into today’s reality, in a kind of picture puzzle, so that the subject and its ideas are (again) given space.