Family Album moves away from Warhol’s famous soup cans and celebrity silkscreens to reveal the enormous private photographic archive behind his public image. Friends, lovers, artists, celebrities, holidays and ordinary moments appear through photographs that initially feel spontaneous and personal. Together, however, they show Warhol constantly observing, collecting and transforming everyday life into images. The exhibition makes photography feel like the connective tissue running through his entire practice.

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) was one of the defining figures of Pop Art, collapsing distinctions between fine art, advertising, celebrity and mass media. Photography was central to this process: his camera allowed him to turn the people and experiences around him into an almost continuous visual archive.