After Zapruder: The Footage as Inspiration for Modern Art
The Zapruder footage began influencing pop art even before it appeared on television. Andy Warhol, in a series of silkscreens of Jacqueline Kennedy made from 1963 until 1968, used the images of the Zapruder film printed in LIFE. In the years following the assassination, Warhol produced many paintings of Jackie Kennedy and of the media coverage of the event:
His recycling and reordering of the Zapruder stills, argues Art Simon in Dangerous Knowledge, is evidence of Warhol both struggling for control over the imagery and rejecting the “history as constructed by the government and its advocates in the mainstream press and dislodged the narrative procedures by which the history was transmitted” (p.105).