Malanga, Gerard

American author, poet, periodical editor of the first two issues of Inter/view, and of Intransit: the Andy Warhol-Gerard Malanga monster issue (1968).

Gerard Malanga is an American poet, photographer, and filmmaker. He was born in New York in 1943, and studied at the School of Industrial Art and Wagner College. He was Andy Warhol's chief assistant from 1963 to 1970, and starred in many of Warhol's early films. Malanga also made and starred in many films of his own. His books of poetry include This Will Kill That (1978) and Mythologies of the Heart (1996). He has also published several books of photography, including Good Girls (1994) and Resistance to Memory (1998), and edited a book on voyeurism in photography, Scopophilia: The Love of Looking (1985). Malanga currently lives and works in New York.

Biography

Gerard Joseph Malanga was born on March 20, 1943 in New York City; attended University of Cincinnati, 1960-61, and New School for Social Research, 1961-63; BA, Wagner College, 1964; attended Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1972; manuscript collector for Harris Poetry Collection, Brown University, 1961; cinematographer, executive producer, casting director, and actor, Andy Warhol Films, 1963-70; had several one-man photographic exhibitions; won Avant-Garde Poetry Prize from Gorham Book Mart, 1961; published works include Incarnations: poems (1974), This will kill that (1978), and Autobiography of a sex thief (1984).