Author: SAMARAS, LUCAS
Title: Samaras : the photographs of Lucas Samaras / essay by Ben Lifson
Description: New York. N.Y. : Aperture Foundation (1987) 1987. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new and still in the publisher's protective shrink-wrap.; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 183 pages; Description: 183 p. : chiefly ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 x 32 cm. Notes: Bibliography: p. 180-182. Subjects: Samaras. Lucas (1936-) --Photography. Artistic. 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.Photography critic Ben Lifson provides a trenchant critique and history of Samaras's work. 'Samaras split himself into model. actor. director. audience. and critic.' Lifson writes. 'To each of these roles he brought a skilled artist's hand an an eye deeply informed by the historical traditions and motifs of art and by the vernacular and popular traditions of photography. He became a rare figure in American art. not an artist who occasionally uses photography for tactical reasons. but an artist who made photography central to his aesthetic campaign.'.ISBN: 0893812412. Weight in Kg appr.:

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