This rare out-of-print photography art book / artifact exists within a strange purgatory-like state in Warhol’s career. Considered lost for years & collector’s item; it was published by early collaborator Gerard Malanga – a renowned photographer in the underground NY scene. Assisting Warhol in his early experiments with film – The “Screen Tests” series (not be confused with Warhol’s trilogy of feature length films) – was an ode to the glamorous golden age Hollywood screen testd & headshots. This series of 2.7 – 4.8 minutes short fragments shot by Malenga & Warhol in sessions at The Factory between early ’64 – November ’66 are some of the few surviving ell-documented early Factory shorts. Malenga & Warhol summed to the studio artists, socialites, musicians, & other counter culture figures attempting to fuse the idealist past with what they saw as the future of art. A lethal speedball of the classic era 50’s tinseltown with contemporary figures in the Avant Garde NY 60’s art world. The gritty burgeoning underground art icons immortalized on celluloid in the style of the stars & starlets of golden age Hollywood.Years later after the book’s release, Malenga would suffer the cruel streak in Warhol after years of loyalty, when Warhol left him broke in Rome, despite his years acting as an underpaid Warhol assistant for his messy tedious silk prints process that netted the Andy Warhol empire & his corporate-backed cronies billions in revenue. Here – in this rare book art book Malenga captures a deeper more philosophical story than Warhol’s pretentious screen tests – with a picture being worth a thousand words & Warhol’s short films barely bringing to mind a mumble. We’re proud to present lesser-known Warhol luminary Gerard Malenga’s lost art book SCREEN TESTS/ A DIARY!