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Warhol Superstar Holly Woodlawn personally autographed & kissed Limited Edition

2015

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In October 2015 the ailing Holly Woodlawn (1946-2015) completed the final autograph session of her life. Seated on her hospital bed in her Hollywood assisted living facility (with breaks for cigarettes and pain medication), Woodlawn lipstick kissed each photo of an edition of 47 Jack Mitchell photographs of herself and inscribed each, “Love, Holly Woodlawn” in her own hand. When the project was completed after several hours, she said, “Thank you for taking me away from reality for a while; it felt great to be a star again.” Holly passed away just seven weeks later, on December 6, 2015. The Photograph - Jack Mitchell’s photo session with Holly Woodlawn in September 1970 resulted in what Holly has said is her favorite photograph of herself. Posing nearly naked wrapped only in a huge cape made of black and white turkey feathers, Mitchell’s lighting captures Holly Woodlawn’s soulful feminine beauty. The Jack Mitchell photograph Holly selected for this edition was from the same session as the one chosen by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the Oscars tribute in February 2016. This is a 13 x 19” archival black and white print on acid free Canon Pro Platinum paper with pigment ink rated as lasting 100 years when stored under archival conditions. It is individually numbered #/47 (from an estate edition of only 47 signed and kissed by Holly) and bears the Jack Mitchell estate embossed stamp on the lower left corner. It comes with an individual Certificate of Authenticity. Shipping is free to customers in the USA. Holly was paid in October 2015 for signing this edition, and that money went to benefit the Holly Woodlawn Memorial Fund for Transgender Youth at the Los Angeles LGBT Center. The sale of this edition will benefit the Holly Woodlawn Memorial Fund for Transgender Youth at the Los Angeles LGBT Center. Pricing of this exclusive edition will increase as the edition sells out. Jack Mitchell, (1925-2013) bulging photographic portfolio of actors, writers, painters, musicians and especially dancers describes a pictorial history of the arts in the late 20th century. Mr. Mitchell, who took hundreds of pictures for The New York Times, was both a portraitist and a capturer of complex motion. An expert in lighting, he worked mostly, though not entirely, in black and white, and he was known — by his subjects, by the magazine and newspaper editors he worked for, and by critics — as someone who could make a photograph reveal character. Jack Mitchell was the official photographer for the American Ballet Theater, and he chronicled the work of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for more than thirty years. When he retired in 1995, he had fulfilled more than 5,000 assignments in black and white, and nearly a thousand in color. He photographed more than 160 covers for Dance magazine, and his photos have appeared in Time, Life, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Vogue and many other publications. Mitchell’s photographs are in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery, the Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, among others. The 2019 USPS Black Heritage postage stamp honoring American performer Gregory Hines was made from a Jack Mitchell photograph, and a Jack Mitchell photograph of Audre Lorde was transformed into a huge glass mosaic as a permanent installation at the 167th Street MTA subway station in NYC.
  • Creator:
    Jack Mitchell (1925 - 2013, American)
  • Creation Year:
    2015
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 19 in (48.26 cm)Width: 13 in (33.02 cm)
  • More Editions & Sizes:
    Group 1-5 SOLD OUTPrice: $500
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  • Gallery Location:
    Senoia, GA
  • Reference Number:
    Seller: Vault Holly Woodlawn Signed & Kissed Edition Box1stDibs: LU113724655802
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