Lucas Samaras / Photo-Transformation / 1973 / Polaroid SX-70 //// Samaras turned to Polaroids largely because one could manipulate the surface of the photograph cheaply, easily and without the aid of the darkroom. Lucas Samaras American Sitting, 1980 Polaroid 20x24 Polacolor photograph 64. LUCAS SAMARAS (born 1936) Photo-Transformation SX-70 Polaroid print. 1936) Photo-Transformation, 4/12/74 SX-70 Polaroid 3 1/8 x 3 1/18 inches, image 4 1/4 x 3 1/2 inches, overall Lucas Samaras (b. The SX-70 was a novelty and I really did not know what to do with it. More than 89,000 works are currently available online. Photo-Transformation. For artists such as Andy Warhol and Ansel Adams, the Polaroid SX-70 was the digital camera of its day. LUCAS SAMARAS Photo-Transformation SX-70 polaroid. Photo-transformationLucas SamarasManipulated Polaroid SX-70 printEst: $6,000-$9,000 Photograph: Lucas Samaras/Courtesy Sotheby's New York Facebook Twitter Pinterest He generally uses his body, often nude, as a subject and takes his photographs indoors. Lucas Samaras “Serpent Green Reclining Nude, 1984,” Polaroid Polacolor II assemblage (Courtesy Pace Gallery) Installation photo by Elin Spring Bruce Charlesworth TOP to BOTTOM: “Untitled, 1978”, “Untitled 1979”, “Untitled, 1979,” Hand-painted Polaroid SX-70 film (Courtesy of the artist) Installation photo by Elin Spring 1936, Kastoria, Macedonia, Greece) has produced an expansive body of work across media and disciplines including photography, installation, drawing, assemblage, performance, sculpture, and design. Artist: Lucas Samaras (American (born Greece), Kastoria, 1936) Date: November 30, 1973. Lucas Samaras, Photo Transformation 1973-1976 American, December 17, 1973 Polaroid SX-70 print 3 x 3 in. Lucas Samaras American Photo-Transformation, 1973-76 Manipulated SX-70 photograph 63. Accession Number: 1986.1244.1. I photographed soap opera characters off of the TV screen and began to employ the surface manipulation technique that Lucas Samaras had used so effectively in his “Photo-Transformations” series from 1973. 3 x 3in. 3.1/8 x 3.1/8in. In 1973, New York based Lucas Samaras, along with a number of other artists, was given a newly released SX-70 camera by an employee of the Polaroid Corporation, John Holmes. Lucas Samaras American Still-Life & Figure, 1978 Polaroid Polacolor 8x10 film Type 808 65. A favourite of photographers and artists such as Anselm Adams, Andy Warhol, Lucas Samaras and others, the Polaroid SX-70 is a classic, compact camera with the benefits of a single-lens reflex camera (SLR). Dated in ink on the verso; Pace Gallery label with typed credit and date affixed to the reverse of the frame. Beginning in 1969, Lucas Samaras began working with the SX-70 process, manipulating images either with light and his body or with the Polaroid process itself. Híres fotósok portréi, önarcképei. Browse Widewalls and discover more auction records by Lucas Samaras, with prices and details of each lot! August 17, 1976. ... Take my boy Lucas Samaras who in a positively ancient 1974 began using these new Polaroids to create mind bending high art after finding that the medium was perfect for turning the human visage into gaping assholes. Lucas Samaras Head #166, 1981 Pastel on paper 44.5 x 29.2 cm Pace Gallery Lucas Samaras Photo-Transformation , 1973 Internal dye diffusion transfer print (Polaroid SX – 70) Framed. Color instant print (Polaroid SX-70, manipulated). Classification: Photographs Credit Line: Gift of Arnold and Milly … The gift fired Samaras’ imagination. View auction details, art exhibitions and online catalogues; bid, buy and collect contemporary, impressionist or modern art, old masters, jewellery, wine, watches, prints, … Lucas Samaras (b. Lucas Samaras Photo-Transformation, 1973 Internal dye diffusion transfer print (Polaroid SX – 70) 10.8 x 8.9 cm Pace Gallery Lucas Samaras Box #13 , 1964 Mixed media Executed in 1973. Lucas Samaras (American (born Greece), Kastoria, 1936) Date: November 30, 1973 Medium: Instant internal dye diffusion transfer print (Polaroid SX-70) Dimensions: 7.5 x 7.5 cm (2 15/16 x 2 15/16 in.) Jun 21, 2015 - Lucas Samaras - Photo-Transformation #28 237 // Polaroid SX 70 (Janvier 1974) For further information on this lot please visit the Bonhams website View additional info Dated in ink on the verso. A few years later, the Polaroid Corporation gave Samaras an SX-70 camera, which he used to make his famous “Photo-Transformation” series. View auction details, art exhibitions and online catalogues; bid, buy and collect contemporary, impressionist or modern art, old masters, jewellery, wine, watches, prints, … Browse Widewalls and discover more auction records by Lucas Samaras, with prices and details of each lot! Lucas Samaras is an artist whose dazzling multi‐media assemblages brought an invigorating subjectivity to modern art, in the last decade. ; 98.XM.20.12 Photo-Tr… In 1973 the Polaroid company gave Lucas Samaras an SX-70 camera that produced a new kind of photograph— what came to be known simply as a Polaroid. The user comes to take pleasure in the way the SX-70’s “penthouse” view-finder snaps up, like a hiker’s folding cup, the way the little cat-door of the front opens to expel the print, the way the basic folded structure combining saddlelike leather and brushed metal blooms from a flat one by four by seven inches to its full working configuration. Lucas Samaras American Photo-Transformation, 1973 Manipulated Polaroid SX-70 photograph 62. 3 1/8 × 3 1/8" (7.9 × 7.9 cm). Credit Line: Gift of Arnold and Milly Glimcher, 1986. When Samaras turned to the SX‐70 … The artists were to experiment with their new toy and make work to be exhibited at Light Gallery in New York. Pace Gallery, 3.75 inch x 3.75 inch, 68 pages, out-of-print, uncommon. Manipulated and distorted Polaroid SX-70 prints. 98.XM.20.1 American, November 22, 1973 Polaroid SX-70 print 3 x 3 in. Samaras learnt to manage the dyes of the Polaroid photos before they dried and set. Medium: Instant internal dye diffusion transfer print (Polaroid SX-70) Dimensions: 7.5 x 7.5 cm (2 15/16 x 2 15/16 in.) Photo-Transformation by Lucas Samaras (American, born Greece 1936), June 13, 1974. It featured the so-called integral system, in which the photograph is developed and fixed without the intervention of the pho-tographer. Estimate: £2,000 - £3,000 Description: Lucas Samaras (Greek, born 1936) Phototransformation 10/30/73 #7005 Sx-70 polaroid 8 x 8 cm. Classification: Photographs. The artist Lucas Samaras, for example, was among the first to modify the images taken with the Polaroid SX-70 through the "Polaroid transfer". Utilizing the immigrant’s special gift of common sense, Samaras heated the Polaroid film in a toaster oven, freeing its stratified layers of color to be manipulated by his innate diabolism. Simply brilliant. It is with great pleasure that I introduce the Polaroid SX-70 to you. Polaroid SX-70. Photo-Transformation 10/27/73 (Eyes) by Lucas Samaras. Lucas Samaras. 1976. In 1973 the Polaroid company gave Lucas Samaras an SX-70 camera that produced a new kind of photograph— what came to be known simply as a Polaroid. Color instant print (Polaroid SX-70, manipulated), 3 1/8 x 3 1/8" (7.9 x 7.9 cm). May 22, 2012 - Our evolving collection contains almost 200,000 works of modern and contemporary art. Available for sale from Roma Gallery, Lucas Samaras, Photo-Transformation (1976), SX-70 Polaroid, 7.6 × 7.6 cm Fotó: Lucas Samaras: Photo-Transformation, Polaroid SX-70 print, 1973. When Samaras discovered the SX-70 Polaroid, a new germination of his character evolved. It featured the so-called integral system, in which the photograph is developed and fixed without the intervention of the pho-tographer. 1976. Jan 3, 2014 - Lucas Samaras: Photo- Transformation 11/9/73 (1973) SX-70 Polaroid photograph, 3 x 3 inches Αρχείο:Photo-Transformation', Polaroid SX-70 print by Lucas Samaras, 1973, Getty Museum.jpg Από τη Βικιπαίδεια, την ελεύθερη εγκυκλοπαίδεια Μετάβαση στην πλοήγηση Πήδηση στην αναζήτηση Phantasmata is the Greek word for phantoms or spectres. 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