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Lucas Samaras

2003 · Pigment inkjet print on paper · Modern and Contemporary Art

In 2003, Samaras began his series of Photofictions using a Leica digital camera and Adobe Photoshop. For some of these works he photographed himself in the studio and then inserted his self-portraits into a variety of New York cityscapes. Having previously created an innovative body of work with the Polaroid camera, Samaras was attracted to the transformative power of this new technology: "The digital Leica allowed me to translate the outside world into my own world."

Artist

Lucas Samaras

Date

2003

Medium

Pigment inkjet print on paper

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

Gift of the artist, 2014