Lucien Samaha

Lucien Samaha is a Lebanese-American photographer and artist based in New York City.[1][2]

Lucien Samaha
Born1958
Beirut, Lebanon
Known forPhotography

Life and career

Samaha was born in Beirut, and emigrated to the US in 1970.[3] He attended Annandale High School and Rochester Institute of Technology.[4] 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.[5][6] He was one of the original members of the Arab Image Foundation.[7]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
  • 2008: Uneasy About Beirut, Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York, USA[8]
  • 2013: The Flight Attendant Years: 1978-1986, Lombard Freid Projects, New York, USA[9]
  • 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[10]
  • 2019: A History of Digital Photography, Pioneer Works, New York, USA[11]

Group exhibitions
  • 2008: Good is What Pleases, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany[12]
  • 2006: Persona-Personae, Sara Tecchia Roma New York, New York, USA[13]
  • 2006: I Want To Show You Somewhere, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Oregon, USA[14]
  • 2007: The Searchers, EFA Gallery, New York, USA[15]
  • 2018: Beirút, Beyrut, Beyrouth, Beyrout, Oslo Kunstforening, Oslo, Norway[16]

References
  1. "Observational Knowledge: Lucien Samaha Interviewed by Regine Basha". bombmagazine.org. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  2. "Lucien Samaha: 'The Flight Attendant Years: 1978-1986'". The New York Times. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  3. "Lucien Samaha". ibraaz.org. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  4. "A History of Digital Photography – Lucien Samaha at Pioneer Works". artspiel.org. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  5. "A History of Digital Photography Lucien Samaha". pioneerworks.org. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  6. "Editors' Picks: 15 Things Not to Miss in New York's Art World This Week". news.artnet.com. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  7. "The Camaraderie of Living in the Skies". hyperallergic.com. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  8. "Lucien Samaha is uneasy about Beirut". artslant.com. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  9. "An Insider's Look Flight Attendants in the 1970s and '80s". slate.com. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  10. ""The Solitude of Modern Man as Portrayed in Contemporary Cinema" by Lucien Samaha". tiff.ro. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  11. "ART OUT: LUCIEN SAMAHA: A HISTORY OF DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY". museemagazine.com. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  12. "An Interview with Lucien Samaha (2013)". americansuburbx.com. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  13. "Persona-Personae in New York". rhizome.org. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  14. "I want to show you somewhere: Lucien Samaha and Hadley+Maxwell". rdc.reed.edu. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  15. "The Searchers". e-flux.com. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
  16. "Beirut, Beyrut, Beyrouth, Beyrout". en.oslokunstforening.no. Retrieved October 9, 2020.


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