CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 4/10/2014

Reading Andy Warhol

Featured image is an advertisement designed by Andy Warhol for New York Daily News delivery trucks circa 1967. Part of Warhol's Flash-November 22, 1963 series, published as an unbound illustrated book five years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, it is reproduced from Hatje Cantz's fascinating but almost sold-out survey of Warhol's work in printed books, Reading Andy Warhol. Essayist Jordan Troeller writes, "The title refers to the conventions of the newsroom. 'Flash,' in distinction to 'first lead' and 'bulletin,' prefaces the most urgent reports as they come in on the wire. Thirty-five of these reports chronicle the events from the arrival of Kennedy in Dallas to the funeral three days later. The title also conjures the flashbulb of the reporter’s camera, and the experience of shock following such grisly illumination."