
Vera Lutter
Museum in the Camera
Jennifer King(Author)
Prestel (Publisher)
Published on 3. March 2020
Book
Hardback
136 pages
978-3-7913-5827-7 (ISBN)
Description
Vera Lutter's work has taken her and her pinhole camera all over the world, most recently to LACMA as its artist in residence. Stationing a mobile camera obscura outside the museum, Lutter captured the exterior of the campus buildings in images that transform the mid- and late-20th century architecture. Using an enormous camera, custom-built into the museum's Old Masters gallery, she captured the long perspective on the classically installed room, echoing historical paintings of museum interiors. Finally, with four smaller cameras, Lutter photographed various works in the LACMA collection, transforming colourful paintings into ethereal black-and-white images. In contrast to digitised photography, which allows artists to fine-tune and perfect their product, Lutter's analogue pinhole photographs are a refreshing reminder of the medium's origins.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Munich
Germany
Illustrations
76 ILLUSTRATIONS
Dimensions
Height: 286 mm
Width: 256 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
1077 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7913-5827-7 (9783791358277)
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Persons
JENNIFER KING is Associate Curator of Contemporary Projects at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. NOAM M. ELCOTT is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. MICHAEL GOVAN is CEO and Wallis Annenberg Director of the Los Angeles.