Lucas Samaras

Photo-Transformation
1974

A close-up photograph of a person's hand with fingers extended, captured with a warm, reddish-brown tint, giving it a surreal, painting-like quality. The image is framed within the classic white border of a Polaroid picture.

A close-up photograph of a person's hand with fingers extended, captured with a warm, reddish-brown tint, giving it a surreal, painting-like quality. The image is framed within the classic white border of a Polaroid picture.

Not on view

Date
1974

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Dye diffusion transfer print (Polaroid)

Dimensions
Sheet: 4 1/4 × 3 1/2in. (10.8 × 8.9 cm) Image: 3 1/8 × 3 1/16in. (7.9 × 7.8 cm)

Accession number
2003.234

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Postwar Committee

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/19467

Exhibitions

Unrepentant Ego: The Self-Portraits of Lucas Samaras

Nov 12, 2003–Feb 7, 2004

Lucas Samaras
128 works in the collection

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