[2] Makos apprenticed with photographer Man Ray, and assisted and collaborated with artist Andy Warhol.

[4][5] Chris Makos was born in 1948 in Lowell, Massachusetts, but grew up in California before moving to Paris.

His photographs have been the subject of numerous exhibitions both in galleries and museums throughout the United States, Europe and Japan and have appeared in countless magazines and newspapers worldwide.

[14] Makos' photographs have been published in Interview, Rolling Stone, House & Garden, Connoisseur, New York Magazine, Esquire, Genre and People, among others.

Makos' Icons portfolio is a collection of silkscreen portraits of Andy Warhol, Elizabeth Taylor, Salvador Dalí, John Lennon, and Mick Jagger.