David Bowie by Lee Black Childers #66/75 Andy Warhol Assistant and Photographer

Description

David Bowie B & W Photograph
Ziggy Era
by Lee Black Childers
Numbered # 66 / 75
14" x 11"
M-
Lee Black Childers Accomplishments
An Andy Warhol Photographer at the NYC FACTORY in the late 60's and early 70's
Andy Warhol Assistant from 1982 - 1984
He was a tour manager for David Bowie,
Iggy Pop
, Johnny Thunders
and Mott the Hoople
among others.
Wilkepedia (Not Me)
Lee Black Childers began taking photographs of drag queens
and was encouraged by Andy Warhol
to work as a photographer, gaining a reputation for his portraits of the artists, musicians and others who passed through the Factory
in New York.
In the early 1970s, he managed Warhol's stage production, Pork
directed by Tony Ingrassi
at the Roundhouse in
London.
He was assistant to Warhol at the Factory between 1982 and 1984, and took photographs of visiting celebrities, counter-cultural figures and musicians, particularly of punk rock
and new wave music
stars, such as Ruby Lynne Reyner, Debbie Harry
, Wayne County
and The Sex Pistols.
He worked as a tour manager for David Bowie,
Iggy Pop
, Johnny Thunders
and Mott the Hoople
among others.
Warhol Museum (Not Me)
The Warhol Museum commemorates the life and work of our friend, photographer Leee Black Childers, who passed away on April 6 at the age of 68. He was hospitalized after collapsing during the opening celebration of his exhibition in Los Angeles on March 22.
A short clip of Lee can be seen here, describing the notorious artists’ bar Max’s Kansas City, excerpted from the museum’s “Talk on the Wild Side” event in 2011. That discussion focused on the 1971 productions of Warhol’s play “Pork” and its influence on Glam rock, with cast-and-crew Cherry Vanilla (in support of her memoir), Tony Zanetta, and Leee (and moderated—such as it was—by me.)
Native Kentuckian Leee Black Childers was stage manager and official photographer for “Pork,” and an essential character of New York’s underground of the late-1960s and ’70s. He stage-managed Jackie Curtis’s play “Femme Fatale” at La MaMa ETC in 1970, “World Birth of a Nation” by Wayne County, and “Pork” at both La MaMa in New York and the Roundhouse in London, all directed by Anthony Ingrassia.
Leee became David Bowie’s official tour photographer for “Ziggy Stardust,” and spent a season in the Hollywood Hills house-sitting Iggy Pop and the Stooges. In addition to the Factory and Max’s, Leee was a regular at CBGB. He managed punks Johnny Thunders and the Heartbreakers and rockabilly revivalists Levi and the Rockats.
Leee’s documentary photos of “Pork” were shown at the Warhol Museum in the exhibition “Warhol Live: Music and Dance in Warhol’s Work” in 2009. His photographs of the punk scene have been shown worldwide. A book on his work, “Drag Queens, Rent Boys, Pick Pockets, Junkies, Rockstars & Punks,” was published in 2012.