Lucas Samaras

unique manipulated Polaroid Time-Zero print, dated in ink on the reverse, a Polaroid Collection stamp and label on the reverse of the mat, framed, another Polaroid Collection label on the reverse, 1974

Cologne, Photokina, Polaroid 50: Art + Technology, September 1996, and traveling to 4 other venues through 1998 (see Appendix 1)

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection, September - November 2000, and traveling to 3 other venues through 2001 (see Appendix 1)

American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection (Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, 2000), pl. 38 (this print)

This manipulated Polaroid print is in generally excellent condition. In raking light, criss-crossing surface scratches, a consequence of the photographer's handwork, are visible. In the upper left corner of the margin is a 3¼-inch loss to the top layer, and in the upper right margin corner is a ¼-inch crack in the top layer. Neither affects the image. On the reverse of the print, 'Samaras' is credited on a small tape remnant.
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