Christopher Makos
Christopher Makos (born 1948)[1] is an American photographer and visual artist. Makos is known for his photographs of queer icons and pop stars, and of the male body.[2] Makos learned from photographer Man Ray, and collaborated with pop artist Andy Warhol. His work has been in the permanent collections of more than 100 museums and major private collections, including those of Malcolm Forbes, Pedro Almodóvar, and Gianni Versace.[3][better source needed] His photographs of Warhol, Haring, Tennessee Williams, and others have been auctioned regularly. Makos lives in the West Village area of New York City.[4][5] Life and career Chris Makos was born in 1948 in Lowell, Massachusetts.[1][6] After his mother and her husband divorced when he was thirteen, they moved to Southern California.[7] Makos dated actor Tony Perkins, who gave him a Nikon camera for his birthday.[7] That was the start of his photography career. "I took pictures and realized I could make money doing that," he said.[8] His first solo exhibition "Pictures From A Suitcase" was at the Foto Gallery in New York from December 1974 to January 1975.[9] At the time, Makos' art dealer acted as both his and photographer Man Ray's representative.[7] As a result, Makos spent a weekend in 1976 hanging out with Man Ray at his birthday celebration in Fregenae, Italy.[10] Throughout that weekend, Makos picked up a lot of photographic tips from Man Ray, who advised him to "obey your first impression."[7] Later that year, he met pop artist Andy Warhol and soon became visible in his social circle.[11][12] In 1977, Makos published his book White Trash.[13] During that time Makos worked as a photo assistant for Warhol and was involved with the publication of the 1979 art photo book, Andy Warhol's Exposures.[12][14][15] His book, Warhol: A Photographic Memoir (1989, New American Library), chronicled his friendship and extensive travels with Warhol in photos.[16] Since the early 1970s, Makos has worked at developing a style of boldly graphic photojournalism. His photographs have been the subject of numerous exhibitions both in galleries and museums throughout the United States, Europe and Japan and have appeared in countless magazines and newspapers worldwide. He has been a seminal figure in the contemporary art scene in New York. He is responsible for introducing the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring to Andy Warhol.[7] Makos' photographs have been published in Interview, Rolling Stone, House & Garden, Connoisseur, New York Magazine, Esquire, Genre and People, among others. His portrait of Warhol wrapped in a flag was featured on the front cover of the Spring 1990 issue of the Smithsonian Studies, the academic journal of the Smithsonian Institution. Makos' Icons portfolio is a collection of silkscreen portraits of Andy Warhol, Elizabeth Taylor, Salvador Dalí, John Lennon, and Mick Jagger. Publications
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