Samaras :  the photographs of Lucas Samaras 
/ Essay by Ben Lifson 
 - New York  : An Aperture Book  , 1987 
 - 183 p.  : illus.  ; 26 cm 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780893812416 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Samaras, Lucas (1936-) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Photography, artistic
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>770.92 SAM