Ben Lifson Essay (10 results)

BLACK CLOTH. Condition: FINE. Dust Jacket Condition: FINE-. ASSUMED FIRST THUS. Size: SQUARE OCTAVO.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover; light fading, light edge wear to exterior; in very good conditio n with clean text, firm binding. Dust jacket, light fading, light edge wear.

Hardcover, illus. Condition: As New. Assumed 1st Edition. Book As New. NO notes or markings of ANY kind. Decorated boards without a DJ as published.; The History of Photography Series, # 14; Square 8vo; 95 pages.

Staplebound Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Oblong 8vo, pp. unnumbered, 14 b/w photos. Light dustsoiling, handling and edgewear to wrappers.

Condition: Good. Original black boards, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with numerous full page photographs in b/w, square (circa 21x21cm), Masters of Photography Series.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. Hardcover, 12 1/2 x 10 x 1 in., 3 lbs 5 oz., Dust Jacket: normal shelf wear especially on back of jacket; Book: normal shelf wear, pages in very good condtions; Overall; very good condidtion.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Cloth, 183 pages, illustrations (some colour); 25 x 32 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Fine DJ. OVERSIZE! Additional shipping charges may be requested for international & priority orders. A massive coffee-table book. Richly illustrated with colour plates. *** "Photographer, painter, sculptor, Lucas Samaras is one of the most influential and provocative artists of our time. Once again available to readers, this long out-of-print volume presents a thorough compilation of Samaras' photographic work, beginning with his earliest 'Auto-Polaroids.' This exhaustive body of work paved the way for a generation of contemporary photo-artists, expanding the expressive possibilities of the medium. Using Polaroid materials, large--sometimes life-sized--formats, manipulated imagery, and composites, Samaras helped forge a vocabulary employed by artists and photographers throughout the eighties. In his most profound achievement, he adopted one of photography's basic genres--portraiture--and used it as a basis for an inquiry into the self, which remains unmatched in its intensity and boundless in its ramifications. Photography critic Ben Lifson provides a trenchant critique and history of Samaras's work. 'Samaras split himself into model, actor, director, audience, and critic,' Lifson writes. 'To each of these roles he brought a skilled artist's hand an an eye deeply informed by the historical traditions and motifs of art and by the vernacular and popular traditions of photography. He became a rare figure in American art, not an artist who occasionally uses photography for tactical reasons . . . but an artist who made photography central to his aesthetic campaign. / Photographer, sculptor, painter, and performance artist, Lucas Samaras is one of the most influential and provocative artists of all time. In 1973, Samaras discovered that the wet dyes of Polaroid prints were highly malleable, allowing him to create what he calls 'Photo-Transformations.' His work has been exhibited widely at such institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and is held in major museum collections around the world. Ben Lifson is a writer, critic, and photographer. His articles have appeared in many periodicals including Art in America, The Village Voice, Artforum, and Aperture. He is represented in the collections of the International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, the National Museum of American Art, and the Minneapolis Art Institute." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Introduction; AutoPolaroids (1969-1971); Splits (1973); Photo-Transformations (1973-1976); Still-Lifes & Figures (1978-1980); 8 x 10 Sittings (1978-1980); 20 x 24 Sittings (1980); Ultra-Large (1983); Panoramas (1983-1986); Heads (1986); Adjustment (1986); Notes; Chronology; Bibliography. Size: Oblong. Collectible.…

First edition. Oblong 4to., 183 pp., b&w and color photos. Fine in color illustrated dust jacket. Samaras, Lucas (illustrator).

Condition: Very Good+. San Francisco: Fraenkel Gallery, [1999]. First Edition. Large square quarto; publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards; 165pp.; chiefly half-tone photographic illus. Some minor wear, mostly at spine ends, else Very Good or better, internally clean and sound.

First Edition. The trade paperback issue. Fine, but for a tiny hint of shelfwear at tip of front cover, in oblong pictorial printed wrappers. (7 1/2" X 8 1/2") Photographer's FIRST book.