CHRISTOPHER MAKOS

Christopher Makos, born in 1948 in Massachussetts/USA and raised in California started to work as a Photographer in the 1970s. He was soon given the title “America’s most modern photographer” by non other than Andy Warhol. However the craft itself he learned under the skilful eye of photography legend Man Ray in Paris, where he originally planned to study architecture. As Andy Warhol´s long-time life partner he quickly became—next to many others who portrayed the multimedia artist of postmodernism—his visual biographer. The countless pictures of his time together with Warhol and his (female) alter ego define the greater part of Makos´s work, parts of which are going to be shown at the exhibition.  Makos’ work is often of an unmerciful and unpretentious nature. This picture language is especially recognizable within the 20 or so polaroids—a medium unpretentious by its own definition—when Makos pushed the button as a finger was bleeding from a cut, when Andy Warhol was hiding behind an issue of Interview or when Marilyn Monroe appeared on the television screen. 

-Taxidesign
Jan 27 2009