Andy Warhols Debbie Harry portrait from 1985/1986

Reconstruction of this historic digital image

Original file is not available to the public as of August 2024.

However, there is a photo of the image on a CRT screen, where individual phosphors can be seen.

Work in progress, aspect only correct when viewing on a real NTSC Amiga CRT screen

Workflow

Automated sampling to recreate pixel perfect image with correct proportions.

Known info

	Original	Reconstruction
Format	ProPaint custom format	IFF/ILBM
Resolution	320x200	320x200
Nr colors	8/16/32 ?	8 ?
Palette	Unknown	Best guess

Links

The moment Andy Warhol went digital by painting Debbie Harry on an Amiga Computer

Amiga World Magazine (January 1986)

Page Six (August 2024)

Interview with Commodore Engineer Jeff Bruette