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 ...
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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. 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."
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Add this copy of Samaras to cart. $47.00, like new condition, Sold by Argosy Book Store rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1978 by Pace Gallery.
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SAMARAS, Lucas. Fine. Illustrated in color and in black and white. 6 pages of text, 11 leaves of plates. Oblong 8vo, spiral bound white wrappers. New York: Pace Gallery, 1978. Fine.
Add this copy of Samaras: the Photographs of Lucas Samaras to cart. $57.00, very good condition, Sold by Argosy Book Store rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from New York, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1987 by Aperture.
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Near fine in very good jacket. Essay by Ben Lifson. Illustrated. 183pp., oblong 8vo, black cloth, d.w.; small tear to dust wrapper at foot of spine. New York: Aperture, (1987). First edition. A near fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.
Add this copy of Samaras to cart. $105.50, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Diego, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1988 by Aperture.
Add this copy of Samaras Album to cart. $195.53, good condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES.
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Good. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art and Pace Editions Inc., 1971. 1st edition, limited to 2000 copies. 4to hardcover with wrap-around pictorial boards. 104pp. Illustrations. Near Very Good book. Pages edges toned. (Lucas Samaras, Nude Photography, Art) Inquire if you need further information.
Add this copy of Samaras: Photographis, 1969-1986aras to cart. $23.00, very good condition, Sold by Dunaway Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Saint Louis, MO, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by Distributed Art Pub Inc.
Add this copy of Samaras: the Photographs of Lucas Samaras to cart. $32.00, like new condition, Sold by Jeff Hirsch Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Wadsworth, IL, UNITED STATES, published 1987 by Aperture.
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Later printing. Oblong hardcover. 183 pages. A reissue of this classic book but with no mention of printing. Essay by Ben Lifson. A then retrospective look at the wildly inventive color photographs of Samaras. A very fine copy in a very fine dust jacket and still in the publisher's shrinkwrap.
Add this copy of Samaras to cart. $33.99, fair condition, Sold by Russell Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Victoria, BC, CANADA, published 1995 by Aperture.
Add this copy of Samaras: Photographs of Lucas Samaras, 1969-86 to cart. $42.00, very good condition, Sold by Aladdin Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Fullerton, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1987 by Aperture.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall Very good with remainder stamp on lower edge of text block. No interior markings. Oblong format. In very good dust jacket with no chips or tears.
Add this copy of Samaras to cart. $43.00, like new condition, Sold by Longhouse, Pub. & Bookseller rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from West Brattleboro, VT, UNITED STATES, published by Aperture, 1987.
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Photographs of Lucas Samaras. Very fine and bright in like dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Highly attractive. Profusely illustrated. New and bright all around, gift quality.
