Jacques Bellini 1983

This is Andy Warhol’s Polaroid of Jacques Bellini. It's one of those images that seems to have been captured in a moment, but I imagine Warhol spent some time thinking about the composition. I can almost feel the camera in my own hands, pointing and shooting, trying to catch just the right look of Jacques, maybe searching for something about the man himself. The light is even, and the red tie pops against the dark suit. It's like he is thinking about the tradition of portraiture while also reinventing it. Warhol made so many Polaroids. I wonder if, for him, it was a way of cataloging the world, of grabbing onto moments and people as they passed by. Each click of the camera is a conversation. Painting, photography – it's all about how we see each other, how we connect. And how we keep the dialogue going, artist to artist.