Vera Lutter
Installation view
Vera Lutter
Installation view
Vera Lutter
Installation view
Vera Lutter
Installation view
Vera Lutter
Installation view
Vera Lutter
Installation view
Vera Lutter
Installation view
Vera Lutter, San Marco, Venice XIX: December 1, 2005, 2005
Unique gelatin silver print, 2 panels: 92 ¼ × 112 ½ inches framed overall (234.3 × 285.8 cm)
Vera Lutter, Campo Santa Sofia, Venice, XXIII: December 17, 2007, 2007
Unique gelatin silver print, 85 7/16 × 112 inches (217 × 284.5 cm)
Vera Lutter, Campo Santa Sofia, Venice, XV: December 12, 2007, 2007
Unique gelatin silver print, 68 5/16 × 56 inches (173.5 × 142.2 cm)
Vera Lutter, San Giorgio, Venice XVIII, January 26, 2008, 2008
Unique gelatin-silver print, 2 panels: 103 × 113 ¼ inches framed overall (261.6 × 287.7 cm)
Vera Lutter, San Giorgio, Venice IX: January 19, 2008, 2008
Unique gelatin silver print, 35 ¼ × 88 ½ inches framed (89.5 × 224.8 cm)
Vera Lutter, Ca Del Duca Sforza, Venice II: January 13-14, 2008, 2008
Unique gelatin silver print, 3 panels: 104 × 56 ¾ inches framed overall (264.2 × 144.1 cm)
Instability, uncertainty, suspense, and monumentality are entities that I consider and think about; they inform my work.
—Vera Lutter
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of large-scale unique photographs by Vera Lutter. This is her first exhibition in Los Angeles.
In Lutter's conceptual approach to the camera obscura, the most rudimentary form of photography, the apparatus records in a very direct and immediate way what exists in the world outside. By choosing to retain the negative image, she transforms the visual facts of her chosen environments into uncanny scenes that reflect on the two principal realities of time and space.
In recent years, Lutter has made the hauntingly romantic city of Venice an object of prolonged study. Building on her previous recordings of industrial landscapes and cities surrounded by water, such as Old Slip, New York (1995), and Cleveland (1997), the works created in Venice elaborate her intention "to create an image in which the city appears to be suspended above its own reflection, rendering a place that appears to exist outside of gravity."
Jean Dykstra reports on Vera Lutter’s new series, produced on the occasion of a commission to photograph Athens.
The Summer 2022 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, with two different covers—featuring Takashi Murakami’s 108 Bonnō MURAKAMI.FLOWERS (2022) and Andreas Gursky’s V & R II (2022).
During a two-year residency at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, from 2017 to 2019, Vera Lutter documented the museum’s changing campus and permanent collection, using her distinctive photographic technique. Here, she speaks about the experience with the museum’s director, Michael Govan.
The Spring 2020 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #412 (2003) on its cover.
Vera Lutter speaks with Gagosian’s Derek Blasberg about her Museum of Fine Arts Houston exhibition, using a shipping container as a camera, and her place in photography as we enter a digital age.
Vera Lutter sat down with Marvin Heiferman, an independent curator and expert in photography, to discuss her latest New York exhibition.
