Fred McDarrah (American, 1926-2007), Andy Warhol

The Dom Nightclub in New York during 1966. Here Andy Warhol staged the Exploding Plastic Inevitable, featuring music by the Velvet Underground, dancing by Edie Sedgwick & Gerald Malanga, along with light shows and Warhol films.

Photo by Fred W. McDarrah.

Jack Kerouac jams with the band at The Artist's Club's New Year's Eve party, December 31, 1958.

Photo: Fred W. McDarrah via the MUUS Collection/Getty Images

Fred W. McDarrah - Cafe La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, New York, 1965

Willem de Kooning, April 24, 1904 – March 19, 1997.

With John Chamberlain at the Cedar Tavern in New York. 1959 photo by Fred W. McDarrah.

"People are so wrong to believe that a persistent revival and reassessment of the old plays will restore interest in our theatre, or that it will remind people of the power of the theatre to such a degree that they'll return to it. History only means anything to the present group of living people if it applies to their current lives. I'm speaking of cultural matters when I say this. Eventually, people will get tired of seeing the same plays over and over and over again: These plays should be brought out only intermittently as homage. They cannot be the foundation of our theatrical diet. When they are brought out, the greatest service they can perform is to inspire people to write, direct, and act with the terminal passion that existed at the creation of these plays. Otherwise, it's taxidermy. The theatre is headed, I'm afraid, for pure taxidermy."

Tennessee Williams/Interview with James Grissom/1982. Photo by Fred W. McDarrah.

(Follies of God)

“BIRTHDAY CAKE OF FLESH” PAUL THEK @ STABLE GALLERY FRED W. MCDARRAH // 1964 [vintage photograph | 18.4 x 11.4 cm.]

John Cage, 1977 by Fred W. McDarrah

Fred W. McDarrah, At the first Stonewall-anniversary march, June 28, 1970

Fred W. McDarrah (photograph), Queer youth celebrate during the second night of the Stonewall riots, Greenwich Village, New York, NY, June 28/29, 1969 [lgbt_history. © Estate of Fred W. McDarrah]

Paul Thek's Birthday Cake of Flesh, c 1964

Pedro dice sempre che l’unico modo di conoscere davvero uno scrittore è attraverso la scia di inchiostro che lascia, dice che la persona che uno crede di vedere è solo il personaggio vuoto e che la verità si nasconde sempre nella finzione.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón - Il gioco dell'angelo

Ph Fred W. McDarrah

Jack Kerouac por Fred W. McDarrah

"Working & reworking his motifs & materials in ways at once extravagant & economic, [Romare] Bearden synthesized not only his own visual & lived experience but also great chunks of 20th-century art & the cultures that fed it." - Roberta Smith

Romare Bearden by Fred W. McDarrah,