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George Maciunas: Passport Photographs By Peter Moore When George Maciunas was planning his final trip to Europe in 1976 to participate in the New York-Downtown Manhattan; Soho festival at the Akademie der Kunste in Berlin, Germany. He turned to his friend Peter Moore, the Fluxus “photographer of record,” for his passport photographs. Although best known as a photographer of performances, Moore photographed Maciunas in his 30th Street studio, located in the basement of his house. It was one of his rare studio photographic shoots. The three rubber stamps in the boxed set are taken from one of several contact sheets produced during the session. The studio shoot took on aspects of a performance. In a playful mood and comforted by an old friend and able photographer. Maciunas mugged, joked, and began gesturing with his hands. A digit up his nose, index fingers stretching his mouth into a smile, thumbs in his ear: Maciunas was enacting the definition of Fluxus, “u fusion of Spike Jones, gags, games, vaudeville, Cage and Duchamp.” Photographs © the Estate of Peter I. Moore. Used by permission. Concept and Design: Picasso Gaglione. Text: John Held, Jr. Production: Diana Mars and Stephen Caravello Special thanks: Barbara Moore.