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Nov 30, 1973 · In his Photo-Transformations series of 1973-76, Samaras extended the formal possibilities of the Polaroid by using his hand or a stylus to gouge, smear, and stipple the wet dye emulsions of the instant prints while they were developing.
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Lucas Samaras: Photos Polaroid Photographs, 1969–1983, Organized by the Polaroid International Collection. Traveled to: Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, September 21–November 27, 1983; Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Fribourg, Switzerland, December 16–January 29, 1984; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt ...
In 1973 the Polaroid company gave Lucas Samaras an SX-70 camera that produced a new kind of photograph— what came to be known simply as a Polaroid. It featured the so-called integral system, in which the photograph is developed and fixed without the intervention of the pho-tographer.
Jul 31, 1976 · In his experimental self-portraits, Lucas Samaras manipulated a familiar photographic process to uncanny effect. Taking advantage of the wet emulsion of instant Polaroid prints, he used his hand or a stylus to manipulate the dye while the picture developed, deforming his own physical features in the process.
For more than a decade, each new Polaroid product prompted Samaras to embark on a fresh suite of experiments. Panorama belongs to a series he began in 1982. For each image the artist made several eight-by-ten-inch Polaroids of a single figure.
Lucas Samaras (Greek: Λουκάς Σαμαράς; September 14, 1936 – March 7, 2024) was a Greek-born American photographer, sculptor, and painter. Greek American artist was devoted to using new forms and materials, working across sculpture, photography, performance, and installation.
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