MANHATTAN – I walked around the St. Patrick’s Day parade here. I’ve photographed this parade a number of times in the past sixteen years. My reaction was “meh” this year. I found this image on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum.
Day 5,999 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
Looking back exactly 16 years to a parking lot in Boston. Boston wealth manager Geoff Hargadon launched “Cash for Your Warhol” during the 2008 recession, riffing on the “bandit signs” offering cash for houses. Mimicking that vernacular, he advertised for Warhols — with a real phone number recording all responses. The project grew into a celebrated conceptual art phenomenon, now collected by the Andy Warhol Museum itself. The billboard was on Fan Pier in Boston. The timing makes the image something of a primary document of the project in its first iteration — before it became an international art world phenomenon. Day 155 of one photograph every day for the rest of my life.
