Photo-Transformation, September 19, 1976

Gallery 156/157, first floor (Honickman Galleries)

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Photo-Transformation, September 19, 1976

1976

Lucas Samaras (American (born Greece), 1936–2024)

Samaras, who studied art at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, discovered Polaroid (dye diffusion process) film in 1969 and used it obsessively until about 1976. This late work is characteristic in Samaras's use of his own body as the subject and in his manipulation of the surface of the photograph during development, an approach that significantly altered the boundaries of color photography.

Gallery 156/157, first floor (Honickman Galleries)

Object Details

Title:

Photo-Transformation, September 19, 1976

Date:

1976

Artist:

Lucas Samaras (American (born Greece), 1936–2024)

Medium:

Dye diffusion print

Dimensions:

Image: 3 1/8 x 3 1/16 inches (7.9 x 7.8 cm) Sheet: 4 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches (10.8 x 8.9 cm)

Classification:

Photographs

Credit Line:

Purchased with funds contributed by various donors and with the National Endowment for the Arts Matching Purchase Grant, 1977

Accession Number:

1977-123-1

Geography:

Photograph taken in United States, North and Central America

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Gallery 156/157, first floor (Honickman Galleries)

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