You Can Call Me On The Telephone

Day 16 of 28 Days of Warhol

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Warhol was not only obsessed with Polaroids. He was also very much into talking on the phone, which is why the gift to Jim Morrison of a telephone was so fitting.

Warhol loved to spend hours talking on the phone. He would record some of the conversations he had with friends on the phone. To Warhol the phone is, what the voice recorder was to Hunter S. Thompson. It was the crucial communication device that bound the genius to his work and the public. If Warhol did not love the telephone, he would have been quite the isolated man.