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Indepth Arts News: "Time Traced: Rodney Graham and Vera Lutter" 1999-10-14 until 2000-06-18 Dia Center for the Arts New York, NY, USA United States of America
Born in Kaiserslautern, Germany, in 1960, Vera Lutter is best known for monumental
black-and-white photographs of cityscapes. Her unique silver gelatin prints are negatives
made by transforming a room into a pinhole camera obscura chamber. Directly exposed, often
over many hours, onto photosensitive paper, these vistas appear as solarized images, their
ethereal platinum tones imbuing the scenes with a haunting melancholy. From an early
concentration on the Manhattan skyline, Lutter has turned lately to more industrial sites,
including a dry dock, a zeppelin factory, an airport runway, a marina and a deserted
warehouse.
Born in 1949 in Vancouver where he still lives and works, Rodney Graham has over the last
twenty years created a highly charged, yet richly varied, body of work that ranges from
photography, film, video, and music to sculpture. A number of works made over the course
of his career probe the status and identity of the photographic medium. Based on an
eighteenth-century carriage and destined for an outdoor site, Camera Obscura Mobile (1996)
offers viewers the opportunity to encounter a live camera obscura. By contrast, Graham's
Millennial Project for an Urban Plaza (1986) wittily offers a miniature prototype for a
structure that would provide an observation point for a proto-cinematic witness to the
growth of an oak tree to maturity.
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