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Lucas Samaras

Pose 0188 Jasper Johns, 2009

Description

Maker

  • Lucas Samaras, b. 1936, American

Title

Pose 0188 Jasper Johns

Year

2009

Medium

Color inkjet print

Dimensions

Image: 81.5 x 45.7 cm (32 1/16 x 18 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

In ink, on verso, across bottom of sheet: “Pose 0188, 2009 LS MS I/ III”

Identification

Edition

1/3

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Photographs

Credit

Gift of Joseph A. Chazan, MD

Object Number

2012.81.6

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

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July 31, 2015 - January 10, 2016

This series parodies the glamour of actor headshots, subjecting the artist’s friends and colleagues—most of whom are figures in the art world—to unflattering up-lighting and garish Photoshop manipulation. Viewing the human face as his canvas, Samaras invited his sitters to wear glasses which cast startling and uncanny shadows. Samaras, who himself once considered an acting career, originally planned to hire professionals for this project, but later opted for “ordinary” people (in his words, “born actors”), and borrowed from the imagery of horror and science fiction.

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Pose 0188 Jasper Johns with the accession number of 2012.81.6. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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