The Andy Warhol exhibit "Warhol: 15 min/24 fps" opened to a crowd of about 50 people on Thursday evening at the CSULB UAM.
The exhibit features silver gelatin prints and some of the 152 Polaroid photographs that the UAM received by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
"This incredible gift from the Warhol Foundation allows us to build upon the museum's wonderful Pop Art legacy and give future scholars and students the chance to explore the creative process behind one of the 20 century's true artistic minds," said Christopher Scoates, the UAM director in a press release given earlier this year.
Scoates was also present at the opening, as well as Ilee Kaplan, the UAM associate director, and Alice Hutchison, the museum's curator.
Lecturing at the opening was CSULB art history program head, Dr. Karen Kleinfe
lder,
who discussed the importance of the concept of identity and image to Warhol's work.
The idea behind these photographs, which include some of actor Dennis Hopper, is to "take a singular identity and fragment it."
Identity, Kleinfelder argued, should be viewed here "not as personality, but as positionality."
She quoted Roland Barthes' "Camera Lucida" at the
beginning of her lecutre with excerpts relating to the notion of image, self-awareness and posing when being photographed. 
Reading from her own writings, Kleinfelder said, "Andy Warhol is an artist of faces, not of heads."
"Don't think they're portraits," she told the audience of Warhol's Polaroids, "think they're portraits of photographs."
The exhibit is open through December 14.
The exhibit features silver gelatin prints and some of the 152 Polaroid photographs that the UAM received by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
"This incredible gift from the Warhol Foundation allows us to build upon the museum's wonderful Pop Art legacy and give future scholars and students the chance to explore the creative process behind one of the 20 century's true artistic minds," said Christopher Scoates, the UAM director in a press release given earlier this year.
Scoates was also present at the opening, as well as Ilee Kaplan, the UAM associate director, and Alice Hutchison, the museum's curator.
Lecturing at the opening was CSULB art history program head, Dr. Karen Kleinfe
lder,
who discussed the importance of the concept of identity and image to Warhol's work.The idea behind these photographs, which include some of actor Dennis Hopper, is to "take a singular identity and fragment it."
Identity, Kleinfelder argued, should be viewed here "not as personality, but as positionality."
She quoted Roland Barthes' "Camera Lucida" at the
beginning of her lecutre with excerpts relating to the notion of image, self-awareness and posing when being photographed. 
Reading from her own writings, Kleinfelder said, "Andy Warhol is an artist of faces, not of heads."
"Don't think they're portraits," she told the audience of Warhol's Polaroids, "think they're portraits of photographs."
The exhibit is open through December 14.
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