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Bob Adelman's stunning photographs of Andy Warhol in1965 while he was still 'not quite famous' are collected here for the first time in this rich and intimate portrait. Adelman brought his world-class eye as a documentary photographer into Warhol's world. His color and black and white photographs capture Warhol at the pivotal point in his career - working on his art and films in The Factory, at Leo Castelli's gallery, at parties with friends Roy Lichtenstein and Edie Sedgwick. Adelman talks about that time with Warhol, "I met Andy at Leo Castelli's Gallery in 1965. I knew some of his work. His Soup Cans for me caught some of the standardization and repetition of mass consumer oriented society. I immediately grasped that he was the Avatar of Consumerism. We got to know each other. He was not quite famous then, and my photographs allow us to see him as much as a person as well as a budding superstar. His time will probably be called the Age of Warhol. I had the wit to take him into a supermarket, where he walked around this dimly lit dump cooing 'Beautiful, Beautiful!' I thought he was putting me on, but he really loved popular culture and regularly ate Campbell Soup when he was younger and struggling." A must-own book.