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ABC News
ABC News
National
arts editor Dee Jefferson

Andy Warhol exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia uses photographs to show the artist through a new lens

Last year, a painting of Marilyn Monroe by Warhol sold for $US195 million ($290 million), becoming the most expensive 20th century artwork ever sold. (Supplied: AGSA/Saul Steed)

Few artists have cemented themselves in the pop culture canon to the extent that Andy Warhol managed to — appropriately, given his obsession with fame and mass media, and the role he played in redefining art as an everyday commodity.

For all that fame, however, few would think of Warhol as a photographer — despite the fact that almost his entire output related in one way or another to that medium.

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