Back to Vera Lutter: Inverted Worlds at New Orleans Museum of Art
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Vera Lutter elevates the current role of the negative from a nearly invisible part of the photography process to the chief object of our attention. Her photographs are one-of-a-kind negative prints made inside a room-sized pinhole camera.
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Events
Noontime Talk with Russell Lord: Towards a New Photography
Wed, May 11, 2016 from 12:00 – 12:30pm UTC
In this noontime talk, curator Russell Lord will discuss the use of photography by the European avant-garde in the twentieth century. He will concentrate on the Negative Image exhibition.
Thanks to The Helis Foundation, Wednesdays are free for Louisiana residents, so stop in and learn something new!
Noontime Talk with Russell Lord: Long Shot: Vera Lutter and the Passage of Time
Wed, May 18, 2016 from 12:00 – 12:30pm UTC
Although photographs are often assumed to be snap-shots–records of short moments in time–curator Russell Lord will discuss the history of long exposures in photography, concentrating on the exhibition Vera Lutter: Inverted Worlds.
Noontime Talk with Russell Lord: Back to the Beginning: Vera Lutter and the Origins of Photography
Wed, May 25, 2016 from 12:00 – 12:30pm UTC
As cameras become increasingly small and complex, Lutter’s work demonstrates the magnificent and contemporary possibilities in the simplest and oldest form of the camera. Curator Russell Lord will explore how Vera Lutter uses camera obscuras to produce monumental and very modern images.
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1 Collins Diboll Cir
New Orleans, LA, US
