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Samaras : the photographs of Lucas Samaras / Essay by Ben Lifson

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TextPublication details: New York : An Aperture Book , 1987Description: 183 p. : illus. ; 26 cmISBN:

9780893812416

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770.92 SAM

Summary: 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.

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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	770.92 SAM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		052056

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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.

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