The Factory
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The Factory was pop artist Andy Warhol's New York City studio and the center of his artistic, social, and filmmaking activities from 1964 to 1987. Originally located at 231 East 47th Street, the first
Warhol with his stuffed Great Dane Cecil and members of the Factory: Candy Darling against the wall, Brigid Berlin taking a Polaroid photo, Geraldine Smith on a leash, Jed Johnson holding a camera, Gerard Malanga hanging on the wall, and Ingrid Superstar leashed to the wall. This photo by Claude Picasso was published in Esquire (December 1969).
The third incarnation of the Factory was located at 860 Broadway.
This trunk was used at Warhol's Silver Factory as a storage unit and film prop. Edie Sedgwick sits on this trunk in Vinyl (1965). After Warhol died in 1987, negatives of photographs by Billy Name were found inside the trunk, as well as the script of Up Your Ass (1965) by Valerie Solanas, which was thought to have been lost.
Gerard Malanga
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Gerard Joseph Malanga is an American poet, photographer, filmmaker, actor, curator, and archivist.
Malanga in 2005
Gerard Malanga featured with the Velvet Underground in the May 28, 1966, issue of KRLA Beat
Malanga (hanging on the wall) with Andy Warhol, who is holding a leash, and members of the Factory: Candy Darling against the wall, Brigid Berlin and Geraldine Smith on leashes, Jed Johnson holding a camera, and Ingrid Superstar leashed to the wall. Photo by Claude Picasso for Esquire, 1969
Malanga in 2007