Gerard Malanga

Gerard Malanga: is a poet, photographer, and filmmaker. From 1963 to 1970 he was the right hand of Andy Warhol, with whom he created Interview magazine in 1969 and collaborated on the famous 3–minute silent Screen Tests. The New York Times referred to him as “Warhol’s most important associate. A large number of his candid portraits are internationally known images, such as Mick Jagger, Velvet Underground, Edie Sedgwick, and Iggy Pop. He is the author of fourteen books of poetry spanning a nearly 50–year period, including Cool & Other Poems (2019) and The New Mélancholia & Other Poems (January 2021). He lives in the shadow of the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York with his three cats.