Lea Bischofberger 1975

This is a portrait of Lea Bischofberger, snapped by Andy Warhol, using a Polaroid camera, and it’s really something. The dreamy quality of Polaroid film lends a certain softness, but there's also a directness, like Warhol just grabbed a moment. The colour palette is muted, yet the red of her overalls pops, doesn't it? It’s fascinating how the material itself—the Polaroid—plays such a big role. It's not just about the image, but about the texture, the surface, and the immediate nature of the medium. Look at the way the light catches her face. It feels both casual and deliberate, like he was thinking about the process, about the quickness of it, but also about the composition. Warhol was obsessed with the instantaneous, and this piece really captures that. Think of his screen prints versus this, both immediate but in different ways, both Warhol all the same.