Samaras : the photographs of Lucas Samaras
Samaras : the photographs of Lucas Samaras
/ Essay by Ben Lifson
- New York : An Aperture Book , 1987
- 183 p. : illus. ; 26 cm
Photographer, painter, sculptor, Lucas Samaras is one of the most influential and provocative artists of our time. Once again available to readers, this long out-of-print volume presents a thorough compilation of Samara's photographic work, beginning with his earliest "Auto-Polaroids" This exhaustive body of work paved the way for a generation of contemporary photo-artists, expanding the expressive possibilities of the medium. Using Polaroid materials, large - sometimes life-sized--formats, manipulated imagery, and composites, Samaras helped forge a vocabulary employed by artists and photographers throughout the eighties. In his most profound achievement, he adopted one of photography's basic genres - portraiture - and used it as a basis for an inquiry into the self, which remains unmatched in its intensity and boundless in its ramifications.
English
9780893812416
Samaras, Lucas (1936-)
Photography, artistic
770.92 SAM
Photographer, painter, sculptor, Lucas Samaras is one of the most influential and provocative artists of our time. Once again available to readers, this long out-of-print volume presents a thorough compilation of Samara's photographic work, beginning with his earliest "Auto-Polaroids" This exhaustive body of work paved the way for a generation of contemporary photo-artists, expanding the expressive possibilities of the medium. Using Polaroid materials, large - sometimes life-sized--formats, manipulated imagery, and composites, Samaras helped forge a vocabulary employed by artists and photographers throughout the eighties. In his most profound achievement, he adopted one of photography's basic genres - portraiture - and used it as a basis for an inquiry into the self, which remains unmatched in its intensity and boundless in its ramifications.
English
9780893812416
Samaras, Lucas (1936-)
Photography, artistic
770.92 SAM