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Lucas Samaras

Pose 0391 Peter Galassi

Description

Maker

Lucas Samaras (American, 1936-2024, b. in Kastoria, Greece

Title

Pose 0391 Peter Galassi
from the series "Poses"

Year

2010

Medium

  • Color inkjet print

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • 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 0391, 2010 LS MS I/ III”

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Joseph A. Chazan, MD

Object Number

2012.81.4

Type

  • Photographs

Projects & Publications

Publications

  • Books

The Chazan Collection at the RISD Museum

144 pages: illstruations (some color), portraits; 31 cm
OCLC#: 961478259

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Heads Up! Recent Gifts to the Collection
Jul 31, 2015 – Jan 10, 2016

Label copy

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.

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Lucas Samaras (American, 1936-2024, b. in Kastoria, Greece
d. in New York, NY)
Pose 0391 Peter Galassi; from the series "Poses", 2010
Color inkjet print
Image: 81.5 x 45.7 cm (32 1/16 x 18 inches)
Gift of Joseph A. Chazan, MD 2012.81.4

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