London exhibition of life at The Factory

Andy Warhol is probably one of the most famous and weirdest characters to come out of 1960s pop culture and was played by Guy Pearce in the recent film Factory Girl, the story of Edie Sedgwick, one of the hangers-on at his Factory studio in New York.

There’s a new photgraphic exhibition just opened, called The Factory:Andy Warhol and Friends at the Redferns Music Picture Gallery in Notting Hill. Its a collection of pictures by Brooklyn born photographer Nat Finkelstein who went to the Factory as a photojournalist in 1964 and stayed for three years photographing the eclectic range of people who passed through Warhol’s studio.

Among those featured in the pictures from the period are Bob Dylan, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, Sedgwick, Timothy Leary and Allen Ginsberg. Nat Finkelstein’s had his work exhibited before at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Tate Modern and the Saatchi and Photographers Galleries among others.

The Redferns Music Picture Gallery is a small and initmate public gallery on Bramley Road, just to the west of Notting Hill. Its open from 10am-6pm Tues-Fri, 11am-6pm Sat. Pictures there are for sale and they offer a bespoke service if you want a specific size of print.