Christopher Makos

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Christopher Makos (b. 1948, Lowell, Massachusetts) is an American photographer who has created a fertile cosmos in which nothing remains sacred and yet everything comes alive, containing images of sophistication and naivete innocence and corruption. His photographs of Andy Warhol, Keith Haring, Tennessee Williams and others have been auctioned regularly at Sotheby's. Warhol called Makos the "most modern photographer in America".

1 Career
2 Miscellanea
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Career

The 'artist as bad-boy' known as Chris Makos was born in Massachusetts, but grew up in California before moving to Paris to study architecture and later, to work as an apprentice with Man Ray. Since the early 1970s he 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 world-wide. 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. His book, Warhol: A Photographic Memoir, published by New American Library, chronicles his close friendship and extensive travels with Andy Warhol.

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 Institute. Makos' Icons portfolio is a collection of silkscreen portraits of Andy Warhol, Elizabeth Taylor, Salvador Dalí, John Lennon and Mick Jagger.

[edit] Miscellanea

Mako's Man Ray portfolio is a tribute to his first mentor
His first book, White Trash (1977), was a documentary of the pre-punk scene in New York City.
Is of Greek descent
Mako's studio is located in New York, New York

[edit] References

Makos, Christopher. Exhibitionism. New York: Glitterati Incorporated, 2004. ISBN 1-57687-222-X
Makos, Christopher. Equipose. New York: Glitterati Incorporated, 2005. ISBN 0-9765851-2-X
Solberg, Paul. Bloom. New York: Glitterati Incorporated, 2005. ISBN 0-9765851-3-8