Instant Exposure: A Habit of Documenting pairs Polaroids taken by Andy Warhol between 1975 and 1986 with Polaroids taken by El Paso-based artists Beatrice Macias-Caballero and Julio Barrera.
Warhol used Polaroids like sketches, taking hundreds of photographs of his subjects and choosing a select few to enlarge and produce silkscreened paintings. Beatrice Macias-Caballero (also knows as BB) uses Polaroids as a means to document landscapes and street scenes. Julio Barrera uses them as a visual diary, capturing strangers walking down the street and other neighborhood happenings.
Instant Exposure: A Habit of Documenting is on display at the Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts at UTEP through August 19, 2023.
Originally Broadcast on July 29, 2023