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Grace Jones
Creator
Andy WarholAmerican Photographer · 1928–1987
All works by this person →> If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There's nothing behind it. > > --Andy Warhol Thus Andy Warhol described himself, being deliberately enigmatic with regard to the depth of his talent. Having received a degree in pictorial design in 1949, he began his professional career as a window dresser and later as a commerci
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- 1984
- Medium
- Polaroid dye diffusion print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
"[N]ow, it seems like you have to do lots of things really well, and you don't get to stay famous for long unless you're always switching. Grace Jones is an example of this," wrote Andy Warhol. Indeed, Jones had been a runway model, singer, movie actress, and performance artist by the time she was thirty. She had also gained celebrity status for her individual style. Her six-foot height, striking features, dramatic makeup, and love of men's clothing created attention as well as confusion; was she a man in drag, a woman who had been a man, or the product of a plastic surgeon? *Vogue* magazine commissioned Warhol to photograph Jones in July 1984. He waited three hours before an assistant discovered that Jones was at a department store retrieving one of her furs from storage. According to Warhol, who thought jewelry a much better investment, Jones spent "all her money on fur coats." It is not surprising, then, that he portrayed her in one during this session.
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