McCabe selected 450 of the most significant 2500 pictures, organized here in chronological order. David Dalton, who took part in many of the events organized at the Factory at that time and became an insider to Warhol's world, wrote the captions and short stories that accompany McCabe's pictures. These writings reveal unique facts, stories, and anecdotes about Warhol and the community of cellebrities that surrounded him.

Author Biography

David McCabe was born in 1940 in Leicester, England, where he studied Graphic Design and Photography. While in art school, he won an international photo competition sponsored by the magazine Practical Photography and was hired by the Mayflower photo studio in London. In 1960, he moved to New York, where he first worked as an assistant and studied under Alexey Brodovitch, Henry Wolf and Melvin Sokolsky. He received his first assignment with Conde Nast in 1963, and was contacted by Andy Warhol the following year. McCabe's photographs have been published in various magazines including Life, Harper's Bazaar, Mademoiselle, W, French Elle, French Vogue and The Times. A selection of his photographs of Andy Warhol have recently been exhibited in many museums around the world. David Dalton was a founding editor of Rolling Stone magazine and is the author of over ten fiction and non-fiction books, including James Dean: The Mutant King and El Sid: Saint Vicious. As teenagers he and his sister Sarah were Andy Warhol's first assistants. It is he who designed - with Warhol himself in 1964 - the 'Fab' issue of the Aspen magazine.