After art school, Christopher spent a brief period supporting himself by painting instant portraits of tourists at Disneyland; he also painted scenes of the kidnapped Patty Hearst for "People" and worked as a courtroom artist during the murder trial of Jean Harris.
"But he wasn't afraid to expose himself in that way". Looking through these selfies alongside the instant portraits Warhol took of celebs and friends, it seems the artist was on a unending mission to capture people in their most natural states, as he viewed them.
In the 70s, Warhol began using a Polaroid camera to deliver thousands of instant portraits.
Such a portrait conferred instant status.
The portrait became an instant icon, appearing everywhere, from the cover of Time magazine to dorm-room windows.
It's a great relief, then, that McBride — with the same flair for historical mining, musicality of voice and outsize characterization that made his memoir, "The Color of Water," an instant classic — pulls off his portrait masterfully, like a modern-day Mark Twain: evoking sheer glee with every page.
The images range from candid shots to posed portraits, giving viewers instant, behind-the-scenes insight into the two friends' lives.
Mendes peeled apart the instant film, exposing a rich, grayscale portrait of the couple, and inserted it into one of his signed paper frames.
Mendes peeled apart the instant film, exposing a rich, grayscale portrait of the couple, and inserted it into one of his signed paper frames.
The instant image maker makes a complete portrait of its subject in a single flash; it is an automated art machine.
