America

Andy Warhol’s collection of photographs and personal commentaries are a love letter to America by one of the most quintessentially American artists of the 20th century. America, originally published in 1985, presents photographs taken by Andy Warhol during his travels across the United States over the previous decade. His commentary reflects on multiple facets of US life, including money, style, death, the labor market, New York City street life, provincial oddities, artists, politicians, washed-up film stars, homeless people, the American dream, and even principles for choosing lovers.Obsessed with images, he carried a camera everywhere he went. With equal interest, he would shoot celebrities (Ronald Reagan, Madonna, Mick Jagger, Jean-Michel Basquiat) and disenfranchised outsiders, granting them their "fifteen minutes of fame." The photographs make a "collective portrait" of a nation that, according to Warhol, accepts everyone seeking to become part of it: "We all came here from somew