Chris Makos’ Hedonistic Portraits of New York’s Art Scene

The two artists met by chance at the Whitney Biennial in 1975. Makos remembered his surprise seeing Warhol in the flesh, thinking he had died after Valerie Solanas shot him in 1968. “I wasn’t star-struck,” says Makos, who is equally at home photographing hustlers, models, or luminaries like Debbie Harry, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Grace Jones. “Andy was just a strange individual, like the David Bowie movie, The Man Who Fell to Earth.”