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Vera Lutter

Clock Tower, Brooklyn, XIX : June 3, 2009

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Vera Lutter investigates the camera obscura and its process of recording light on photographic paper. She draws inspiration from architecture and her works explore urban landscapes, industrial sites, mythical landscapes, and the views from her artist studio. These are a selection of the many places where she reframes images to reveal different layers of spatial perception. Her large-scale photographs often require several hours or days of light exposure. She chooses to work with room-sized cameras allowing the size of the resulting image to reflect the architecture in which it was made. The prolonged exposure allows her to record images that give evidence to time passed. The resulting ephemera and movement dissolve time into the image, sometimes enabling ghostly forms to surface. These photographs don’t simply translate the real; they also reveal an intermediate world, a space of corresponding apparitions. The images radiate a fluid and otherworldly feeling that allows the gaze to drift and linger on certain details captured with startling precision.

Artworks

Clock Tower, Brooklyn, XIX : June 3, 2009

Clock Tower, Brooklyn, XIX : June 3, 2009

Unique silver-gelatin print
141 x 141,5 cm
2009
Grace Building: March 4

Grace Building: March 4

Vera Lutter
Unique camera obscura, silver-gelatin print
61 x 51cm
2005
Paris Moon

Paris Moon

Vera Lutter
Archival pigment print
40,5 x 31 cm
Maria Laach VI: October 20

Maria Laach VI: October 20

Vera Lutter
Unique fiber based silver gelatin print, mounted on museum board and framed behind plexi glass
158,5 x 137 cm
2010
Cold Spring III: March 9

Cold Spring III: March 9

Vera Lutter
Unique fiber based silver gelatin print, mounted on museum board and framed behind plexi glass
242 x 287 cm
2013
155 West 66th Street, New York City, I : August 22

155 West 66th Street, New York City, I : August 22

Vera Lutter
Unique camera obscura, silver-gelatin print
222 x 143,5 cm
2005

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