Paige Powell on Photographing Basquiat

Paige Powell moved to New York exactly five days after John Lennon was shot in 1980. Determined to work for Interview magazine or Woody Allen, the ambitious arts graduate secured positions with both in less than a month. Powell was swiftly accepted into Andy Warhol’s inner Factory circle and became an Associate Publisher at Interview, where she was a contributing photographer and writer. By 1983 she was dating the...