Cristopher Makos and Paul Solberg are the Hilton Brothers. Makos (Lowell, Massachusetts, 1948) lived in New York in the 1960s and 1970s, was a photographer for Andy Warhol's Interview magazine and made the extraordinary series of 365 photos in which the Factory's pattern was traversed using all kinds of wigs. Solberg (Saint Paul, Minnesota, 1969) studied Anthropology trapped by photography who ends up becoming an artist. Separately they are interesting personalities, together they are surprising, and together and separated at the same time compose a very powerful exhibition: the baptized Mistaken identity, which can be seen in the Cultural Space Caja Madrid, Barcelona, ​​until next March 29.

Por sua vez, Makos deve a Warhol seu conhecimento sobre como encarar a arte como negócio. “Muitos artistas pensam que podem apenas ser artistas e que o dinheiro tomará conta de si mesmo. Não é assim que funciona. Você precisa prestar muita atenção em como vender seu trabalho", disse. "Andy me ensinou isso melhor do que ninguém."

Provando que de fato aprendeu a lição, Makos pediu à reportagem do iG que o ajudasse a encontrar um comprador para "Andy Dandy Four", trabalho feito em conjunto com o também fotógrafo norte-americano Paul Solberg, com quem há nove anos estabeleceu uma parceria sob o nome de Hilton Brothers. 

Two artist-photographers have traced the footsteps of Stieg Larsson's crime-beating heroes to create a travel book with a Millennium series hook.

The travelogue "Tattoos Hornets Fire," produced in conjunction with VisitSweden, isn't a traditional, broad-view travel guide.

Instead, it shows readers where to eat like Larsson and live like Lisbeth Salander, the fictional protagonist of the writer's "Dragon Tattoo" novels.

Christopher Makos lernte bei Man Ray, zeigte Andy Warhol wie man eine Kamera benutzt und machte ihn mit Michel Basquiat bekannt. Paul Solberg machte sich bislang vor allem durch seine Floral-Fotografien einen Namen. 2004 lernte er Christopher Makos kennen. Zusammen arbeiten sie seitdem als die Hilton Brothers. Sie stimmen ihre bunten Anzüge aufeinander ab und stellen gemeinsam aus. So zum Beispiel auch für "Andy Dandy and other works" in der Berliner Galerie Hiltawsky, in der wir die beiden New Yorker Fotografen zum Gespräch trafen.

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Berlin is so full of art that it even crops up in somewhat unexpected places, such as the Art’otel Berlin City Center West.

Who would suspect that this modern building on the Lietzenburger Straße would house such an impressive collection of works from Andy Warhol and Warhol-photographer Christopher Makos. The latter recently took the Berlin&I team on a tour through the hotel’s corridors, where his and Warhol’s works hang side by side. Makos has captured Warhol’s encounters with famous personalities, such as John Lennon, Liza Minelli or Salvador Dali. They’re much too impressive to be only seen by the hotel guests!

Moscow Interview, June 2012

Christopher Makos était l'assistant, le bras droit de Warhol. Paul Solberg est également photographe, auteur d'un livre qui a fait date, Bloom. Les deux artistes se sont rencontrés il y a sept ans et, trouvant que leur sensibilité était proche, il ont décidé de s'unir pour former The Hilton Brothers, un nom qui sonne comme un groupe rock. Ils se sont amusés, par exemple, à photographier le même sujet et à comparer leur résultat et comment leur image exprime leur sensibilité. En studio, ils réunissaient les deux images pour en faire une seule. 1+1 = 3.

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