Warhol, who often carried a Polaroid camera with him, used his snapshots as preliminary sketches to complete paintings. He took tens of thousands of Polaroid photographs throughout his career. In 2008, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts divided some of the artist’s photos and offered them to numerous university galleries around the country, including Gettysburg College. Read more.
If you go
See the “Andy Warhol: Polaroids and Portraits” exhibit at the Gettysburg College’s Schmucker Art Gallery, 300 N. Washington St., Gettysburg. There will be a curator’s talk at 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 30, and an opening reception 5 to 6 p.m. The exhibit will run through Sept. 28.