Andy Warhol's Exposures

I don't think Studio 54 is like pagan Rome. I think it's like junior high school. "In Japan when they say yes they mean no. It's their idea of being polite. It's a pretty good system, except when someone like the wife of the Prime Minister of Canada calls and asks to speak with me and they say yes and hang up." "Diana Vreeland makes the smallest detail important. She makes walking to the drugstore like a trip around the world. And she makes a trip around the world like walking to the drugstore." Catherine Deneuve to Jade Jagger: "Stop that. I don't like you pulling my hair." Jade Jagger to Catherine Deneuve: "Well, my father doesn't like you smoking at table." Muhammad Ali, posing for Andy Warhol: "Do I look fearless?" This is a book of photographs and profiles of his friends by Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol's friends are the stars of rock, fashion, film, society, sports, politics. "My idea of a good picture, " writes Warhol, "is one that's in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous. It's being in the right place at the wrong time." Only Andy Warhol could be in so many right places at so many wrong times, and only Andy Warhol could bring together these 360 "good pictures, " presenting a unique view of contemporary celebrity life by the most contemporary celebrity of all. Here are Mick, Bianca, and Jade Jagger, Truman Capote, Paulette Goddard, Jacqueline Onassis, Liza Minnelli, Salvador Dali.