Jan 18, 2012
Andy Warhol buying Campbell’s Soup at the grocery store, 1962
Gristede’s Supermarket, New York City…
(via Laughing Squid, Phaidon)
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Jan 18, 2012
Gristede’s Supermarket, New York City…
(via Laughing Squid, Phaidon)
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I am more impressed with the prices of all those Campbell’s products. An age gone by……
I love how everybody is so shocked at the prices in this photo but they fail to do there research to find out that the Median Income in the United States at the time was only $6000 dollars
@ Barb, really??? Really? You know you can still get those cans for about $.60 in most major grocery stores. Here is a fascinating picture of an icon and all you can talk about is how soup was about $.50 cheaper 45 years ago. Wow.
Dude, those cans are 2 for $.29 and 2 for $.37, that makes them around $.14 – $.18 a piece. A substantial difference from today’s market prices.
Too bad his art didn’t have as much of a point as this picture does.
@really? Yes really! I to am more amazed by the price than the so called Icon.
Then you are clearly a simple, unimaginative dullard using up perfectly good air.
Here’s something that might even make your head explode – I hope you’re sitting down…
The farther back in time you look, the lower the prices get.
There’s actually a correlation between the two factors!
Incredible, right?
Meanwhile, none of the rest of us will expect you to comprehend the significance of this seemingly innocuous photo and its implications, i.e., that Warhol is almost certainly in the process of purchasing the objects used as a reference for one of the most well-known and iconic images produced during the 20th century.
You mouth-breathing pantload.
Now was that quite necessary? You fail at your goal of seeming enlightened and went straight for arrogant and pretentious.
And you fail at interpreting my goal.
Not to mention using “fail” to begin with.
Unimaginative… Painting what is right in front of you is imaginative? Anyway, the picture was probably snapped by someone after he had painted the soup cans that really helped to launch him into stardom. Otherwise, why would anyone care to take a picture of some guy in a supermarket?
As for your pretentious snap about prices and time: There often is the relationship of time to money that you suggest, but the two are not related in a true cause/effect relationship. Prices can just as well drop as rise in the future. The relationship is more properly defined as the value of the dollar (or whatever currency you may use) to the value of the soup (and its packaging, advertising, blah, blah, blah).
Therefore, while pulling off arrogance quite well, you completely missed some major gaps in your own logic. Also… pantload… gotta say that’s a new one for me. I’ll assume that you meant that Bridgette is one leggy woman, so nice complement, chum.
Barb probably understood it, said “ho hum” like most everyone else over the age of 19, and move on to study the less obvious things about the picture.
Also, Barb is probably not an undergrad art major.
Hey, I was right. REALLY?/TypeO is an undergrad. Probably also 19 AND an art major. I hate when people live up to stereotypes. It’s so boring.
Thank you, Sarah. I actually hold a masters in elementary education which I use on a daily basis raising my 7 children. While I understood the significance of the photo, I do feel it was a set up for promotional purposes after Warhol’s painting debuted. I would much rather display the artwork made by the precious hands of my children then that of a pretentious college student’s “icon”.
2 for $2.64 in today’s dollars.
and 2 for $2.07
@Really?–As a stay at home mom to 7 children, yes, the 1962 prices are more amazing to me then your ‘icon’. My world doesn’t revolve around a painter/filmmaker. My world is much like the majority of those who read Abraham’s blog….the world of making every penny stretch to feed, clothe, and shelter our families.
Then what are you doing wasting time making idiotic comments on a blog with all those children waiting on you?
Those pennies aren’t going to stretch themselves while you’re sitting on your ass in front of the computer.
Isn’t there a mall you’re supposed to be at, showing off your air of disdain for mall culture?
Isn’t there a kitchen you should be in, making me a sandwich?
Geez, people, take a pill! If someone doesn’t like Warhol and his art, then that’s their opinion and they’re entitled to it.
Thanks Carr!! : )
Geez Type”0″ what a super Dill Hole you are. Lmbo
Warhol was having a good time messing with people. Obviously few of you commenters are having a good time, or perhaps you are! You sick, little bunnies are just like that which you attack.
Hee hee giggle
I’ve shot pics for the Warhol family for many years. Just the other day, I tried to buy food with some cash I received as payment…it was given back. When I told the family member about it, I learned that it came from Andy’s safe, so it was VERY old…so old that the modern-day counterfeit machines refused it because it didn’t have the vertical strip! Needless to say, Andy’s $100 bill is now framed in my studio.:)
One art, please!