This exhibition catalogue includes color reproductions of photographs included in the exhibition, a list of plates with descriptions of the photographs, their subjects, and their production, and a short entry by William Katz.

Katz writes of the photographs that they “are not conventional…they are built up from something within rather than extracted from something without.” He reflects on the artist’s use of a Polaroid camera, comparing it to “a composer’s score.” He also offers insights into the process of producing prints for the exhibition. He concludes by noting that “the prints…convey the most subtle variations of energy and evanescent feeling.”  

For more on Twombly’s photographs, see also From State of Mind to the Tangible: The Photographic Cosmos of Cy Twombly by Carlos Peris (2022); Cy Twombly: Photographs III 1951–2010, published by the Museum Brandhorst and Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen (2011); Cy Twombly: Photographs 1951–2007, ed. Laszlo Glozer (2008); Twombly: Photographs, published by Brazos Projects (2000); Cy Twombly Photographs: Lyrical Variations, published by the Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art (2016); Cy Twombly: A Survey of Photographs 1954–2011, published by Gagosian Gallery (2012); and Cy Twombly: Photographs, published by Gagosian Gallery (2015) and containing a text by Mary Jacobus.

(Publication description by Jamie Danis)

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Cy Twombly Photographs at Matthew Marks Gallery, NY (October 15–December 4, 1993).

Cy Twombly Photographs. Text by William Kats. Published by Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, 1993. Fully illustrated.