{"product_id":"samaras-the-photographs-of-lucas-samaras","title":"Samaras: The Photographs of Lucas Samaras","description":"182 pp. 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.\"","brand":"An Aperture Book","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":20537170788422,"sku":"2281485","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1232\/9510\/products\/2281485.jpg?v=1571426384","url":"https:\/\/ym-demo.myshopify.com\/products\/samaras-the-photographs-of-lucas-samaras","provider":"Yesterday's Muse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}