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Background information
"The unusual light pictures of Vera LUTTER show more than simply reality. For her unique photographs, she uses an ancient technique already described by Aristotle: the camera obscura. Light falls through a tiny hole into a darkened room and projects an upside-down, side-inverted image of the outside world inside. In a process that takes days to weeks, Vera LUTTER exposes photographic material using this method. The large-format images, exhibited as negatives, have an alien and at times uncanny quality. They capture not a single moment, but an entire period of time, thus questioning what is conventionally understood as the documentary value of photography.
Content
This lavishly produced catalog volume presents black-and-white photographs from 1997 to 2012, as well as two recent projects: in a series of moon photographs and a 24-hour video and sound work, 'One Day,' the artist reexamines the origin of light and the role it plays in our understanding of time." (© Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2012)
About the German photographer, Vera LUTTER (b. 1960, in Kaiserslautern)
Photo books by Vera LUTTER
- Photographer(s)
- LUTTER, Vera (GER)
- Book design
- BLACKWELL, Kelsey
- Format
- HC (no dust jacket, as issued), 28,5 x 24,5 x 2 cm., 144 pp.
- Language(s)
- French / English
- Year of Release
- 2012
- Publisher
- Htaje Cantz Verlag
- Print run details
- 1st print run, out of print