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It is fascinating to me that these enormous buildings have been left alone and are in a natural state of deterioration within the magical landscape of the desert.
—Vera Lutter
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present photographs from Vera Lutter’s Egypt series.
In Lutter’s conceptual approach to the camera obscura, the apparatus records the outside world in a direct and immediate way. By choosing to retain the negative image as her final printed work, Lutter transforms the visual facts of her chosen environments into scenes reflecting on the twin realities of space and time. Her exposures can take days, or in some cases months, to produce and correlate with the scale of the photograph. Akin to x-rays, in these exposures the most stable and permanent aspects of environments emerge as spectral foci. And nowhere is this relationship between time and form more pronounced than in the recordings of the massive buildings that populate the deserts of Egypt.
Lutter’s Egypt series is as much a record of undisturbed ancient architecture as the scope of restrictions and prohibitions that she encountered. She produced these photographs using an empty suitcase transformed into a covert camera obscura, lined with photosensitive paper. Thus each of these works conforms to the dimensions of the improvised device, producing a scale that is much more intimate than in previous series.
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Vera Lutter: Time Travel
Jean Dykstra reports on Vera Lutter’s new series, produced on the occasion of a commission to photograph Athens.
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Gagosian Quarterly Summer 2022
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).
Vera Lutter: Museum in the Camera
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.
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Gagosian Quarterly Spring 2020
The Spring 2020 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #412 (2003) on its cover.
In Conversation
Vera Lutter
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: On New York
Vera Lutter sat down with Marvin Heiferman, an independent curator and expert in photography, to discuss her latest New York exhibition.
