Vera Lutter
San Marco, Venice XX: December 3, 2005

San Marco, Venice XX: December 3, 2005

© 2005 Vera Lutter

San Marco, Venice XX: December 3, 2005
San Marco, Venice XX: December 3, 2005
ArtistGerman, born 1960
CultureGerman
Titles
  • San Marco, Venice XX: December 3, 2005
DateDecember 3, 2005
Place depictedVenice, Italy
MediumGelatin silver prints
DimensionsOverall: 91 × 112 in. (231.1 × 284.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment Fund
Object number2015.285.A,.B
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Vera Lutter’s one-of-a-kind negative print, made with an hours-long exposure inside a room that had been transformed into a giant pinhole camera, presents a parallel universe of pitch-black sunshine and glowing shadows where left is right and right is left. Devoid of people, her finely detailed images of post-industrial ruins, modern cities, and historical sites such as the heart of Venice share a slightly eerie quality that seems to remove them from the present time. Although analog negatives are disappearing from photographic practice and process, Lutter finds new magic in the central principles and traditional materials of her medium.


Provenance[Gagosian Gallery, London]; purchased by MFAH, 2015.
Exhibition History"Vera Lutter: Inverted Worlds," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 21, 2015–March 20, 2016.

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