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Vera Lutter

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WA-00031194

Mixed MediaContemporary

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Authority Records (3)

WikidataQ4269864 ULAN500335726

MoMA

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MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/8152
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

Vera Lutter creates large-format camera obscura photographs on silver gelatin paper, often several meters in scale, using extended exposures to capture architectural and landscape subjects with distinctive atmospheric depth. Working since the 1980s, she employs the camera obscura as both optical instrument and conceptual framework, privileging the materiality of light and chemical process over the mechanical certainty of contemporary lens-based image-making. Her negatives bear the imprint of time itself, transforming familiar structures into luminous, almost ethereal compositions.

Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 1mo ago

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Contemporary

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Mixed Media

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Museum of Modern ArtNew York Victoria and Albert Museum

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Artworks (5)

Radio Telescope, Effelsberg XV: September 12, 2013

2013 · Photograph

Victoria and Albert Museum

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Pepsi Cola Interior II: July 6-13, 2000

2000 · Gelatin silver print

Overall installation: 90 3/4 in. × 14 ft. 3/4 in. (230.5 × 428.6 cm) Sheet (A): 90 in. × 55 3/4 in. (228.6 × 141.6 cm) Sheet (B): 90 in. × 55 3/4 in. (228.6 × 141.6 cm) Sheet (C): 90 in. × 55 3/4 in. (228.6 × 141.6 cm) Frame (each): 90 3/4 × 56 1/4 in. (230.5 × 142.9 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Pepsi Cola, Long Island City, IX: July 2, 1998

1998 · Gelatin silver print

228.6 x 142.2cm (90 x 56in.) Sheet (A): 89 1/2 × 55 5/8 in. (227.3 × 141.3 cm) Sheet (B): 89 5/8 × 55 5/8 in. (227.6 × 141.3 cm) Sheet (C): 89 5/8 × 55 5/8 in. (227.6 × 141.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Costa, Luerssen Werft, Lemwerder, Germany: August 21, 1997

1997 · Gelatin silver print

49.3 x 59.1 cm (19 7/16 x 23 1/4 in. )

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Appropriation of Manhattan, Fulton Ferry Landing, Brooklyn, III: May 25, 1996

1996 · Gelatin silver print

55 9/16 × 169 1/8" (141.2 × 429.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Artwork sources (3)

5 published of 6 catalogued · 3 with image

The Met
3 published
MoMA
1 publishedof 2 catalogued2 img
Victoria & Albert
1 published1 img

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Art Institute of Chicago

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Contemporary

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Museum of Modern Art Victoria and Albert Museum Christie's

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Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

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Victoria and Albert Museum

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Christie's

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