Documenting Vera Lutter's ambitious residency at the Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, this book traces the artist's process and features
images from her two-year-long photography project.
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 colorful paintings
into ethereal black-and-white images. In contrast to digitized
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.
Published with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art