Loretta Lux
Isabella

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Artist Loretta Lux (German, born 1969)German, born 1969

CultureGerman

Titles

Isabella

Date2001

MediumSilver dye bleach print

DimensionsImage: 9 × 9 in. (22.9 × 22.9 cm)
Sheet: 11 7/8 × 11 13/16 in. (30.2 × 30 cm)

Credit LineGift of the artist and Yossi Milo Gallery

Object number2003.800

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionLux combines photography, painting, and digital manipulation to create portraits of childhood with an eerie, dreamlike quality. While the portraits mimic early Netherlandish and Renaissance paintings, the figures—with stark, impassive expressions—seem almost spectral, neither here nor there, neither true subjects nor digital simulations. A painter by training, Lux traded her oils and brushes for pixels and a mouse. She spends up to a year working the entire surface of an image, replacing the background with a quiet, simple setting constructed from her own stock of photos and paintings.
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition History"After Photoshop: Manipulated Photography in the Digital Age," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 19 June - 8 September, 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

In pencil verso lower right: "Isabella / Printer's Proof"

Signed and dated in pencil verso lower right: "Loretta Lux 2001"

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