Little Red Book #123

Andy Warhol

1972

Instant dye diffusion transfer prints (Polaroid Polacolor Type 108), bound album

Minneapolis Institute of Art

A spread from a book shows an open family album with multiple small black and white photos on the left page, and a color Polaroid photo of two people on the right page. A spread from a book shows an open family album with multiple small black and white photos on the left page, and a color Polaroid photo of two people on the right page. Little Red Book #123 is a collection of Polaroids of members of Andy Warhol’s life and social circle. Some are known celebrities, others part of New York’s active art and club scene in the 1970s. Warhol produced more than forty thousand Polaroids between 1970 and 1987. A small number of these images were organized by Warhol himself into more than one hundred Red Books. The twenty images here document the life and world of an artist in a way that challenges the notion