Bob Colacello: Out

Bob Colacello... Elsa Peretti and Diana Vreeland, ca, 1975 (Vintage gelatin silver, printed ca. 1975 Annotated by photographer on verso). From the exhibition Bob Colacello: Out at Steven Kasher Gallery in New York. "...Colacello documents a social era that seems so close and yet so far away: that wild, glamorous, disco-and- drugs-driven decade between the end of the Vietnam war and the advent of AIDS, when every night was a party night and such distinctions as uptown and downtown, gay and straight, black and white were momentarily cast aside. As the editor of Andy Warhol’s Interview from 1971 to 1983, Bob Colacello was perfectly placed to record the scene, which he did in his monthly “Out” column, a diary of the frenetic social life that took him from art openings to movie premieres, from cocktail parties to dinner parties, from charity balls to after-hours clubs, often all in the course of a single evening."