Best known as a founding pillar of Andy Warhol's factory, Malanga worked closely with Warhol during the 60s and was involved in all phases of Warhol's creative output in silkscreen painting and filmmaking. He was featured in several of Warhol’s films, collaborated with Warhol on his “Screen Tests” project, and was a member of Warhol’s cross-genre undertaking, “The Exploding Plastic Inevitable” - they also founded Interview magazine together in 1969.
He's also a talented photographer in his own right and has shot so many iconic images you probably wouldn't know about.The cover of Iggy Pop's The Idiot? Malanga. Patti Smith on the 68th Street Subway? Malanga.
Malanga has also published the photography books Good Girls (1994) and Resistance to Memory (1998). He served as the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation’s first photo archivist, and edited a study on the link between photography and voyeurism, Scopophilia: The Love of Looking (1985). With Victor Bockris, Malanga co-authored Up-Tight: The Velvet Underground Story (2003).