Happy birthday Andy Warhol! ⁠⁠ Marie Cosindas made this photograph of Andy Warhol at the Factory in 1966 for her series “The Dandies”, which featured a handful of stylish men such as the writer Tom Wolfe and the painter Richard Merkin. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ She was celebrated for her lush, meticulously composed portraits and still-lifes, both of which she created with the newly invented Polaroid color film. As soon as Cosindas spied the orange-red fire door, she moved a pile of junk blocking the way and pushed Warhol out on the ledge so she could capture him in soft, natural light. ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Warhol made hundreds of instant celebrity portraits using a Polaroid camera; his subjects typically posed against a blank wall. He was fascinated by the transitory nature of celebrity in consumer culture, prophesizing, "In the future, everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠ Warhol maintained his place in the spotlight without ever revealing himself; he insisted that neither his hand nor persona was evident...