Joel Ehrenkranz
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
2013.144.3
Art Historical Context
**Joel Ehrenkranz (2010) by Lucasaras is a striking inkjet print portrait, capturing the essence of its subject with the precision and vibrancy characteristic of contemporary digital photography. Samaras, a Greek-American artist renowned for his innovative explorations of identity and perception, often pushed the boundaries of the medium through manipulation and introspection. Though best known for his distorted Polaroid self-portraits from the 1960s and 1970s, this later work reflects his continued fascination with the human form, rendered in a large-scale format—measuring 81.28 × 45.72 cm (3...
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...