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Vera Lutter: Museum in the Camera
Exhibition
Vera Lutter: Museum in the Camera
1 Apr 2021 – 12 Sep 2021
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 20:00
- Saturday
- 10:00 – 19:00
- Sunday
- 10:00 – 19:00
- Monday
- 11:00 – 17:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 17:00
Address
- 5905 Wilshire Blvd
- Los Angeles
California - CA 90036
- United States
Event map
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.
About
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.
