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8 x 10 Sitting

8 x 10 Sitting

Lucas Samaras
American, born Greece. 1936–2024
February 11, 1980
A color instant print (Polacolor II) in which the artist stages a near-nude figure amid draped fabric and glaring lamps to turn a fleeting bodily gesture into theatrical photographic performance.
What hits you first is the electric clash of cyan and crimson light, the gleam of studio lamps, and the figure’s blurred, airborne motion that dissolves the body into streaks of color and movement.
Part of the artist’s Polaroid experiments, this work helped push instant photography beyond straightforward documentation into a medium for performance, self-invention, and the physical manipulation of the photographic image.
Medium
Color instant print (Polacolor II)
Dimensions
9 1/2 × 7 1/2" (24.1 × 19 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Robert and Gayle Greenhill
Accession
80.1992
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