Lucas Samaras

unique Polaroid SX-70 print, dated in ink on the reverse, framed, a Polaroid Collection stamp and label and Innovation/Imagination and Unrepentant Ego exhibition labels on the reverse, 1974

San Francisco, The Friends of Photography, Innovation/Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography, May - July 1999, and traveling to 11 other venues through 2007 (see Appendix 1)

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Unrepentant Ego:  The Self-Portraits of Lucas, Samaras, November 2003 - February 2004

This print:

Samaras: The Photographs of Lucas Samaras (Aperture, 1987), p. 55 

Innovation/Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography (The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, 1999), p. 63

Barbara Hitchcock, ed., Emerging Bodies: Nudes from The Polaroid Collection (Zurich, 2000), p. 166

Marla Prather, Unrepentant Ego: The Self-Portraits of Lucas Samaras (Whitney Museum of American Art, 2003), p. 167

Variant:

Lucas Samaras: Photo-Transformations (Long Beach, 1975), pl. 22

This print is in generally excellent condition. In high raking light, a tiny speck of indeterminate nature is visible in the lower left quadrant.
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