Lucien Samaha
{{short description|Lebanese-American photographer and artist}}
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| birth_date=1958
| birth_place = Beirut, Lebanon
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| known_for = Photography
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Lucien Samaha is a Lebanese-American photographer and artist based in New York City.{{Cite news |url=https://bombmagazine.org/articles/observational-knowledge-lucien-samaha-interviewed/|title=Observational Knowledge: Lucien Samaha Interviewed by Regine Basha |website=Bomb |date=February 5, 2020|access-date=2020-10-09}}
- {{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/05/arts/design/lucien-samaha-the-flight-attendant-years-1978-1986.html |title=Lucien Samaha: 'The Flight Attendant Years: 1978-1986' |author=Holland Cotter |date=July 4, 2013 |work=The New York Times|access-date=2020-10-09}}
Life and career
Samaha was born in Beirut and migrated to the US in 1970.{{Cite web |url=https://www.ibraaz.org/usr/lucien-samaha_ibraaz/intro.html |title=Lucien Samaha |website=Ibraaz |access-date=2020-10-09}} He attended Annandale High School and Rochester Institute of Technology.{{Cite web |url=http://artspiel.org/a-history-of-digital-photography-lucien-samaha-at-pioneer-works/ |title=A History of Digital Photography – Lucien Samaha at Pioneer Works |website=Art Spiel |date=November 20, 2019 |author=Catherine Kirkpatrick |access-date=2020-10-09}} He was a flight attendant with Trans World Airlines from 1978 to 1986. In 1990, he was the recipient of the first Eastman Kodak Company Professional Photography Division Scholarship ever given to a photographer and later joined the Eastman Kodak Company.{{Cite web |url=https://pioneerworks.org/exhibitions/lucien-samaha-a-history-of-digital-photography/ |title=A History of Digital Photography Lucien Samaha |website=Pioneer Works |access-date=2020-10-09}}
- {{Cite news |url=https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/editors-picks-december-2-1701348 |title=Editors' Picks: 15 Things Not to Miss in New York's Art World This Week |website=Artnet News |author=Sarah Cascone |date=December 2, 2019 |access-date=2020-10-09}} He was one of the original members of the Arab Image Foundation.{{Cite web |url=https://hyperallergic.com/76733/the-camaraderie-of-living-in-the-skies/ |title=The Camaraderie of Living in the Skies |website=Hyperallergic |author=Marina Lorenzini |date=July 31, 2013 |access-date=2020-10-09}}
Exhibitions
=Solo exhibitions=
- 2008: Uneasy About Beirut, Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York, USA{{Cite news |url=https://www.artslant.com/ny/events/show/16265-lucien-samaha-is-uneasy-about-beirut |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080407064633/http://www.artslant.com/ny/events/show/16265-lucien-samaha-is-uneasy-about-beirut |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 7, 2008 |title=Lucien Samaha is uneasy about Beirut |website=Artslant |access-date=2020-10-09}}
- 2013: The Flight Attendant Years: 1978-1986, Lombard Freid Projects, New York, USA{{Cite web |url=https://slate.com/culture/2013/08/lucien-samaha-the-flight-attendant-years-1978-1986-capture-a-small-part-of-a-photographers-life-photos.html |title=An Insider's Look Flight Attendants in the 1970s and '80s |website=Slate |author=David Rosenberg
|date=August 11, 2013 |access-date=2020-10-09}}
- 2016: The Actor's Shadow, Sibiu City Hall, Romania
- 2016: The Solitude of Modern Man as Portrayed in Contemporary Cinema, Transilvania International Film Festival, Romania{{Cite web |url=https://tiff.ro/en/eveniment/solitude-modern-man-portrayed-contemporary-cinema-lucien-samaha |title="The Solitude of Modern Man as Portrayed in Contemporary Cinema" by Lucien Samaha |publisher=TIFF |date=May 22, 2016 |access-date=2020-10-09}}
- 2019: A History of Digital Photography, Pioneer Works, New York, USA{{Cite web |url=https://museemagazine.com/culture/2019/11/4/art-out-lucien-samaha-a-history-of-digital-photography |title=ART OUT: LUCIEN SAMAHA: A HISTORY OF DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY |website=Musée |date=November 4, 2019 |access-date=2020-10-09}}
=Group exhibitions=
- 2008: Good is What Pleases, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany{{Cite web |url=https://americansuburbx.com/2013/06/interview-asx-interviews-lucien-samaha-2013.html |title=An Interview with Lucien Samaha (2013) |website=ASX |author=Vladimir Gintoff |date=June 27, 2013|access-date=2020-10-09}}
- 2006: Persona-Personae, Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York, USA{{Cite web |url=https://rhizome.org/community/6487/ |title=Persona-Personae in New York |website=Rhizome |date=January 27, 2006 |access-date=2020-10-09}}
- 2006: I Want To Show You Somewhere, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Oregon, USA{{Cite web |url=https://rdc.reed.edu/c/cooley/s/r?_pp=20&query=I%20Want%20To%20Show%20You%20Somewhere&s=13e3179484cb6e22219d99c5756d3fa90b979d49&p=1&pp=1 |title=I want to show you somewhere: Lucien Samaha and Hadley+Maxwell |publisher=Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery |access-date=2020-10-09}}
- 2007: The Searchers, EFA Gallery, New York, USA{{Cite web |url=https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/40907/the-searchers/ |title=The Searchers |publisher=The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts |access-date=2020-10-09}}
- 2018: Beirút, Beyrut, Beyrouth, Beyrout, Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo, Norway{{Cite web |url=https://en.oslokunstforening.no/beirut |title=Beirut, Beyrut, Beyrouth, Beyrout |publisher=Oslo Kunstforening |access-date=2020-10-09}}
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://luciensamaha.net}}
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Category:American photographers
Category:Lebanese diaspora in the United States
Category:Rochester Institute of Technology alumni
Category:Annandale High School alumni
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