Lucas Samaras

unique manipulated Polaroid SX-70 print, dated in ink on the reverse, framed, a Polaroid Collection stamp and Innovation/Imagination and Unrepentant Ego exhibition labels on the reverse, 1973

San Francisco, The Friends of Photography, Innovation/Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography, May - July 1999, and traveling to 11 other venues through 2007 (see Appendix 1)

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Unrepentant Ego: The Self-Portraits of Lucas, Samaras, November 2003 - February 2004

This print:

Innovation/Imagination: 50 Years of Polaroid Photography (The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, 1999), p. 62 

Marla Prather, Unrepentant Ego: The Self-Portraits of Lucas Samaras (Whitney Museum of American Art, 2003), p. 157

Polaroids: Mapplethorpe (Whitney Museum of American Art, 2008), fig. 15, p. 36

Variant:

Gretchen Garner, Disappearing Witness: Change in Twentieth-Century American Photography (Baltimore and London, 2003), fig. 7.8, p. 124

This print is in generally excellent condition. In high raking light, there is a tiny deposit of indeterminate nature in the lower left quadrant.
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