Research Catalog

Title

Edie, Factory girl / Nat Finkelstein + David Dalton.

Author

Finkelstein, Nat.

Publication

New York : VH1 Press ; Brooklyn, NY : Distributed by powerHouse Books, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Dalton, David, 1942-2022

Description

151 p. : ill. (some col.); 26 cm.

Summary

"She was riveting to look at, a sprite of the zeitgeist, the living distillation of the over-amped vision of New York in the mid-sixties. Like many exotic creatures that Andy Warhol shed his light on, she initially bloomed--became the symbol for all that was hip and stylish--and just as quickly began to disintegrate. Told with unsparing candor, and with images that capture her at the peak of her Factory stardom, Edie Factory Girl is the short but enduring cultural story of Edie Sedgwick--releasing in time for the film of the same name starring Sienna Miller, and including rare photos of Miller as Edie. David Dalton was just a teen when he became one of Warhol's first assistants, and was present for the arrival of Edie: witnessing her rise, her Factory superstardom, and subsequent unraveling. Like an anthropologist thrown together with a tribe of "wild" people, Nat Finkelstein entered the Factory just as Warhol was emerging as the supreme catalyst of the sixties. Among the freaky menagerie, Nat found Andy's misbegotten princess the most fascinating and enigmatic character of her time, and with a compassionate lens recorded her fragile, fleeting beauty. Edie Factory Girl is a privileged glimpse into Warhol's inner sanctum, via revealing interviews with intimates, friends, and scenesters, in which Edie orbits around the likes of Bob Dylan, Salvador Dali, Betsey Johnson, Lou Reed, Judy Garland, and many more, before departing as quickly as she came."--Publisher's website.

Subject

• Sedgwick, Edie
• Andy Warhol's Factory (New York, N.Y.)
• Motion picture actors and actresses > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

1576873463

LCCN

^^2006024833

OCLC

• 70803459
• SCSB-11210579

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library