Andres Serrano

a suite of 3 unique large-format Polaroid Polacolor prints, each signed on the reverse, 1993 (3)

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection, September - November 2000, and traveling to 3 other venues through 2001 (see Appendix 1)

American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2000), pl. 64 (these prints)

Carole Kismaric, ed., Art Works: Teenagers and Artists Collaborate on the Polaroid 20" x 24" Camera (The Education Project, 1993), pp. 28-31 (variants)

These large-format Polaroid prints are in generally excellent condition except where noted. The bottom print margins are unevenly trimmed, as is customary with large-format Polaroid prints, and there tack holes in the upper corners of the margins. Right profile - In raking light, a small soft handling crease is visible near the bottom edge of the image. Frontal view - In raking light, a few fingerprints and small surface scuffs are visible throughout the image.
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In the early 1990s, Janeil Engelstad, director of Public Programs and Development for The Education Project, conceived of Art Works, a not-for-profit program that would pair at-risk teenagers from New York who showed an interest in photography with professional photographers.  Funded in part by the Polaroid Corporation, Art Works engaged its young participants with the use of the large-format Polaroid camera in efforts to promote learning and self-expression.  Among others, participating artists included Chuck Close, Laurie Simmons, and William Wegman.  The photographs offered here, and in Lots 111 and 170, come from these student-artist collaborations.