Titles

Edie
Factory Girl

Photographs by Nat Finkelstein
Text by David Dalton
VH1 Press / PowerHouse
October 2006
ISBN: 1576873463

She was riveting to look at, a sprite of the zeitgeist, the living distillation of the over-amped vision of New York in the mid-60s. As Andy Warhol’s movie muse and favorite “star” she initially bloomed, became the symbol for all that was hip and stylish and just as quickly began to disintegrate under the weight of her haunted past and prodigious drug taking. Told with unsparing candor and with candid images that capture her at the peak of her radiant Factory stardom, Edie Factory Girl is the vibrant but tragic story of cultural icon Edie Sedgwick.

Author Bio

David Dalton was just seventeen when he became Warhol’s assistant and was witness to Edie’s rise and subsequent unraveling. Nat Finkelstein entered the Factory just as Warhol was emerging as the supreme catalyst of the ’60s. Nat found Andy’s misbegotten princess the most fascinating and enigmatic character of her time and with a compassionate lens, recorded her fragile, fleeting beauty. Together they offer a privileged glimpse into Warhol’s inner sanctum, via revealing interviews with intimates, friends and scenesters, in which Edie orbits around the likes of Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Judy Garland and many more before departing as quickly as she came.