a unique composition comprised of 40 ½- to 1-inch strips of Polaroid Type 808 prints, initialed and dated in pencil on the reverse, mounted, a Polaroid Collection label and Polaroid Collections stamp on the reverse, framed, 1983-86

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection, September🦹 - November 2000, and traveling to 3 other♛ venues through 2001 (see Appendix 1)

This composition:

Selections 2: From Polaroid Collection (Verlag Photographie, 1984), unpaginated

American Perspectives: Photographs from the Polaroid Collection (Tokyo Metropolitan Museu🌄m of Photography, 20꧃00), pl. 37

This unique Polaroid composition is in generally excellent condition. There is a rich range of colors with no apparent fading. The composition is kept together by pieces of paper tape that run its width. Upon close examination, various tiny disruptions to the glossy surface and pen-point-sized matte deposits of indeterminate nature are visible.
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This unique composition is one of a series of Panoramas Samaras began in 1983.&nb🐟sp; These compositions utilized multiple 8-by-10-inch color Polaroid prints that Samaras cut into strips and meticulously reassembled.  This deconstruction and subsequent reconstruction of a scene creates an image that is simultaneously expanded and segmented, and produces a visual effect similar to David Hockney's collages (see Lot 6).