Sports titans “captured at the height of their youthfulness and fame” by Andy Warhol on Polaroid.

“…Straightforward portraits shot with the Big Shot camera — gives the tiny images a purity and sincerity that belies the radiance and aura of greatness coming from the sitters”. -NY Times

This small collection commissioned by a collector in the late 70s and 80s will be showing at Danziger Projects.

The upcoming exhibition at The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University entitled “Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids,” features an amazing collection of famed celebrities and pop culture icons shot by Warhol from 1969 – 1986.

Described by the museum as “an important dimension of Warhol’s process in creating his famous large-scale portraits,” its clear the “Polaroids served as aids for painting portraits, in and of themselves they are significant works and represent a relatively unknown body of Warhol’s work.”

Some previews of the exhibit after the jump.