8 x 9 IN / 20.3 x 22.9 CM
36 Pages, Softcover
Text in English
ISBN-13: 978-1-7335212-5-3
 
 
alternative normative 
 
"As an early member of the Arab Image Foundation, I had access to the archive’s collections. Pursuant to the publication of Mapping Sitting by Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari, I thought I would take some of the material they had published “as is” and expand on them. Through various goals and processes I fell upon a layering of various miscellaneous faces to create new personages. After making a dozen or so, I set the project aside, and ten years later I came back to revisit it and decided to create not only composite characters, but couples and groups. It was only after I decided that I had finished with the lot I had at my disposal, that the images began to inspire me with their stories. The fact that the characters were unique if not quixotic, the direction of the stories took a strange turn, but in fact quite autobiographical in many, and from real experiences in others."
 
About the Author
 
"I was born in Beirut in 1958, and have been photographing my life and adventures since I took one of the first photography courses within an art curriculum ever offered in a High School in the US in 1975.  Photography has been my companion throughout my many careers, including that of a Flight Attendant for TWA, a Marketing Manager for Eastman Kodak Company, where I had the distinction of being the first digital photographer ever, and a world famous DJ on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center.
 
I consider myself to be a ‘post-conceptualist’ artist, a term of my own definition, where I relish the adventure of photographing and gathering materials and data from the real world and then find inspiration of making sense of them in a finished photo book or art project. In addition to my own classic photography, I also creates artworks in video format, and two dimensional visual art derived from other photography, videos, publications, and found objects.
 
I have been and will forever be consolidating and annotating my still growing archive of over a million photographs and video clips to serve a variety of projects, now and in the future. I have shown at the Museum for Modern Art in Frankfurt Germany and at the Cooley Gallery, Reed College, Portland Oregon, and was a Nam Jun Paik Award Finalist in 2004 in Dortmund, Germany.
 
To date, I have self-published over 70 photography books of varying genres from street photography in different cities to esoteric themes found in my archive’s categories. I live and work in Tribeca, Lower Manhattan, New York City."
 
www.luciensamaha.net