{"product_id":"samaras-9780893812416","title":"Samaras","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSamaras\u003c\/strong\u003e by Samaras, Lucas. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780893812416.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePhotographer, 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 Samaras photographic work, beginning with his earliest \"Auto-Polaroids.\"\n\nThis 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 photographys 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.\n\nPhotography critic Ben Lifson provides a trenchant critique and history of Samarass work. \"Samaras split himself into model, actor, director, audience, and critic,\" Lifson writes. \"To each of these roles he brought a skilled artists 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Aperture","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44952266309685,"sku":"ByrdShop_0893812412","price":74.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780893812416_523a6eed-9564-4507-82df-ca17cbde9cbf.jpg?v=1781399762","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/samaras-9780893812416","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}