Lucas Samaras

Photo-Transformation
1976

A Polaroid photo featuring a blurred image of a mannequin with a bouquet of flowers in front of it, set against a backdrop with a red vertical element on the right side. The image has a dreamy quality with light spots scattered throughout, suggesting movement or falling petals.

A Polaroid photo featuring a blurred image of a mannequin with a bouquet of flowers in front of it, set against a backdrop with a red vertical element on the right side. The image has a dreamy quality with light spots scattered throughout, suggesting movement or falling petals.

Not on view

Date
1976

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
2003.235

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/19474

Exhibitions

Artists Making Photographs: Chamberlain, Rauschenberg, Ruscha, Samaras, Warhol

Jan 16–May 17, 2009
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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