James Lindon
2010
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View on museum website →Medium
inkjet print
Dimensions
image: 81.28 × 45.72 cm (32 × 18 in.) sheet: 91.44 × 50.8 cm (36 × 20 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kimberly and John F. Zwetchkenbaum
Accession Number
2013.144.12
Art Historical Context
**James Lindon** *Lucas Samaras, 2010* Inkjet print, image: 81.28 × 45.72 cm (32 × 18 in.); sheet: 91.44 × 50.8 cm (36 × 20 in.) National Gallery of Art, of Kimberly and John F. Zwetchbaum Lucas Samaras, a Greek-American artist renowned for his experimental photography and explorations of identity, presents *James Lindon* (2010), a compelling inkjet print portrait. Created late in his career, this work reflects Samaras's shift toward digital technologies, building on his earlier innovations like the 1970s Photo-Transformations series, where he distorted self-portraits using Polaroid m...
About the Artist
Lucas Samaras
Lucas Samaras, a Greek-born American artist renowned for his boundary-defying explorations of self and identity, was born on September 14, 1936, in Kastoria, Greece. Immigrating to the United States with his family in 1948 amid the turmoil of World War II and the Greek Civil War, he settled in West New York, New Jersey. Samaras pursued studies at Rutgers University from 1955 to 1959, where he befr...