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From Merce Cunningham Dance Company: 50th Anniversary - Signed, numbered and dated

Vera Lutter’s Engine Frankfurt Airport (2001) is a gelatin silver print that exemplifies her distinctive style of using pinhole camera techniques to create large-scale, negative images. This photograph captures the silhouette of an aircraft engine against the geometric patterns of the airport’s tarmac. The blurred contours and high-contrast black-and-white tones evoke a sense of motion and timelessness, characteristic of Lutter’s exploration of urban and industrial spaces. The interplay between light and shadow highlights the engine's form, while the abstract composition transforms the mundane into an enigmatic, almost surreal visual experience. The piece is signed, numbered, and dated by the artist, marking it as part of her exploration within the context of modern movement and architecture.

Vera Lutter (Germany, 1960) is a photographer renowned for her large-scale, black-and-white images created using the camera obscura technique. Her work captures urban and industrial landscapes, often presenting inverted and negative perspectives that challenge conventional perceptions of space and time. Lutter's innovative approach has been exhibited globally, including at MoMA and LACMA.

Vera Lutter

Engine Frankfurt Airport, 2001

Name: Engine Frankfurt Airport, 2001
SKU: 12237

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Photography

PhotographyPhotography is the process of creating an image on light sensitive materials. The image is produced by using a camera, which has a lens that focuses on light either reflected or emitted from an object. These visible wavelengths are used to reproduce the image seen.

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Gelatin Silver Print

Gelatin Silver PrintA silver gelatin print is a type of photographic print made using the silver process. In this process, photographic materials such as black and white films and printing papers are coated with a light-sensitive emulsion of silver salts suspended in gelatin. This emulsion is applied to a support, which could be flexible plastic, glass, resin-coated paper, or baryta paper. The materials are light-sensitive and remain stable under normal storage conditions, making them ideal for long-term preservation.

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From Merce Cunningham Dance Company: 50th Anniversary - Signed, numbered and dated

Vera Lutter

Engine Frankfurt Airport, 2001

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Gelatin Silver Print

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The first time I created a camera obscura... I thought I’d seen God.
- Vera Lutter

Vera Lutter is a contemporary German photographer based in New York City. Lutter earned a degree in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, but her creative interests quickly changed to photography and she received a Masters Degree in Fine Arts from the New York School of Visual Arts. Vera Lutter’s most famous work involves producing black and white images of locations, such as urban centers, abandoned factories, shipyards, airports and train stations enhanced by bright light. The majority of Vera Lutter’s photos are of places within the five Boroughs of New York City. Her photos have been exhibited in galleries throughout the United States, Europe and South America. Permanent collections of her art can be seen at noteworthy art institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California; the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.; and the Art Institute of Chicago. Vera Lutter has been the recipient of a number of awards, such as the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD_ Grant in 1993, A John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2001 and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2002. (Artist website)

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What is ‘light and space’?

The Light and Space Movement refers to loosely affiliated art movements connected to minimalism, geometric abstraction, and op art that originated in Southern California in the 1960s. Greatly influenced by artist John McLaughlin, these artists focused on sensory phenomena such as light, perception, and space as central elements of their work. They also incorporated cutting-edge technologies from the aerospace and engineering industries to develop light-filled and sensuous objects, creating immersive experiences that emphasize the viewer's perception.

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Vera Lutter

Engine Frankfurt Airport, 2001

76.2 x 91.4 cm

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