$18,750.00
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Vera Lutter
Hudson, Waxing Crescent, 2011
Silver gelatin print
22 x 30 inches
Courtesy of the artist
Estimated value: $15,000
Starting bid: $10,500
Buy it now: $18,750
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Vera Lutter (German, b. 1960)
For her project Albescent (2010-2012), Vera Lutter photographed the moon during its different stages—waxing, waning, and even during an eclipse—portraying its forms as we commonly see them: a crescent, a gibbous, and a full moon. Taken from various places around the world, the series of photographs together is both a travel diary and a contemplation of illumination as they reflect the constant presence of the moon as a source of light and marker of time. Lutter’s documentation reminds the viewer, not only of what we can see in dark places, but of what possibly remains in the shadows.
Vera Lutter studied sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich (1991) and received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York (1995). She is best known for her uniquely produced camera obscura images of industrial and architectural sites around the world. Lutter has received several awards and fellowships including the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2002) and a Guggenheim Fellowship (2001). Her work has been exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collections of Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Neue National Galerie, Berlin; and many others.
