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One Fine Show: “Lucas Samaras – Sitting, Standing, Walking, Looking” at the Art Institute of Chicago
This show makes the case that the artist did something stranger and more singular with Polaroids than almost anyone else.
Polaroid photography is one of those pieces of analog life that Gen Z has decided to embrace, despite the fact that it wasn’t very good. As with wired headphones, the technology was impressive when it debuted, but unlike vinyl records, there are more drawbacks than benefits. Important to remember, too, is that when your favorite artists were using Polaroids, they were doing so because they found the medium to be futuristic. Andy Warhol would go around parties with his Big Shot, and Diaries has a woman in 1980 asking him, “When are you going to Xerox me, darling?”
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