Bob Colacello. It Just Happened, Photographs 1976–1982

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It Just Happened is the first solo exhibition in London by the American photographer and writer Bob Colacello, documenting his long-standing collaboration with Andy Warhol during the heady cycle of parties and travelling that animated their lives in the 1970s and 1980s. Curated by Elena Foster and the Ivorypress team, the exhibition will include letters, magazines and memorabilia alongside Colacello’s photographs, which help bring to life the era’s atmosphere of hedonism and endless possibility.

Between 1971 and 1983, Colacello was the editor of Interview and Andy Warhol’s right hand at the magazine. On one of his many trips with Warhol, Colacello acquired a Minox – a tiny camera said to have been used by spies during the Cold War. From that moment on, he carried this pocket camera with him to jet-set parties, dinners and weddings held in such iconic settings as the Factory and Studio 54. In It Just Happened, Colacello shares photographs from his personal album taken between the late 1970s and early 1980s, providing an intimate and faithful chronicle of the fascinating social circle around the so-called ‘Pope of Pop’.