Vera Lutter: Museum in the Camera
Vera Lutter: Museum in the Camera
From February 2017 to January 2019, New York–based artist Vera Lutter was invited by LACMA to work in residence at the museum, creating a new body of work examining the campus architecture, galleries, and collection holdings. Vera Lutter: Museum in the Camera features the compelling photographs made during her two-year residency.
Lutter uses one of the oldest optical technologies still in use, that of the camera obscura. Before the invention of photography, it was known that if light traveled through a tiny hole into a darkened room, an image of the external world (off which the light rays had reflected) would re-form upside down on a wall opposite the tiny opening. By building room-sized cameras and placing unexposed photo paper across from a pinhole opening, Lutter has adopted the camera obscura as her singular working method, resulting in photographs with an ethereal, otherworldly beauty.
This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Support is provided by Sharyn and Bruce Charnas and Chara Schreyer and Gordon Freund.
All exhibitions at LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Exhibition Fund. Major annual support is provided by Kitzia and Richard Goodman and Meredith and David Kaplan, with generous annual funding from Terry and Lionel Bell, Kevin J. Chen, Louise and Brad Edgerton, Edgerton Foundation, Emily and Teddy Greenspan, Marilyn B. and Calvin B. Gross, Mary and Daniel James, David Lloyd and Kimberly Steward, Kelsey Lee Offield, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony and Lee Shaw, Lenore and Richard Wayne, Marietta Wu and Thomas Yamamoto, and The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation.
The opening reception is supported by CHANEL.
Vera Lutter’s residency at LACMA was supported by Sotheby’s.
Image: Vera Lutter, Rodin Garden, I: February 22, 2017, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, promised gift of Sharyn and Bruce Charnas, © Vera Lutter, photo courtesy of the artist
- April 1, 2021 – September 12, 2021
- Resnick Pavilion
This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Support is provided by Sharyn and Bruce Charnas and Chara Schreyer and Gordon Freund.
All exhibitions at LACMA are underwritten by the LACMA Exhibition Fund. Major annual support is provided by Kitzia and Richard Goodman and Meredith and David Kaplan, with generous annual funding from Terry and Lionel Bell, Kevin J. Chen, Louise and Brad Edgerton, Edgerton Foundation, Emily and Teddy Greenspan, Marilyn B. and Calvin B. Gross, Mary and Daniel James, David Lloyd and Kimberly Steward, Kelsey Lee Offield, Mr. and Mrs. Anthony and Lee Shaw, Lenore and Richard Wayne, Marietta Wu and Thomas Yamamoto, and The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation.
The opening reception is supported by CHANEL.
Vera Lutter’s residency at LACMA was supported by Sotheby’s.
Image: Vera Lutter, Rodin Garden, I: February 22, 2017, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, promised gift of Sharyn and Bruce Charnas, © Vera Lutter, photo courtesy of the artist
Installation Photography
Media
Throughout Vera Lutter’s residency at LACMA, a team of filmmakers documented the building of different camera obscuras throughout the museum and followed the artist as she created her dreamlike photographs.
