Andy Warhol left behind a lot of self portraits. There was the black-and-white shot from a photo booth strip, from 1963, in which he wore dark black shades and a cool expression.
In 1981, he took a Polaroid of himself in drag, with a platinum blond bob and bold red lips. Five years later, he screen-printed his face, with bright red acrylic paint, onto a black background.
These and other images of the Pop Art master rank among his best-known works. But one of his most telling self portraits wasn’t a portrait at all, in a conventional sense.
Between 1976 and 1987, the artist regularly dictated his thoughts, fears, feelings and opinions — about art, himself and his world — over the phone to his friend and collaborator Pat Hackett.