Dark Chambers
All students @ the department have always started off their first few weeks in first year working and making their own pin hole cameras... so I wanted to share the work of Vera Lutter [VL] with you.
Vera Lutter uses the camera obscura, the most basic photographic device, in unusual and intriguing ways. VL choice of camera obscura is a shipping container with which she produces large wall size images. Her extreemly large photographic images are exposed over several hours, sometimes over months, capturing a trace of movement, a ghostly image that speaks about space and time_ it's temporariness_ its trail.
For VL the process of capturing light in these ' shipping container cameras' is part of her artwork. She explains:
"I am interested in the massive, awkward act of people and merchandise being moved from one place to another. I have been exploring the medium of transformation_ ships, trains, zeppelins, oil rigs, planes --- in the industrial area they are built in, relating the transfer of merchandise to the transfer of light with the camera. The empty body takes in people and brings them somewhere, its the transfer of place and the exchange of goods. The void interior space of the light to come in and transfer it into an image."
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The zeppelin image took four days of exposure_ for 2 days it was parked in front of the camera in the hanger and for two days it was flying. When the zeppelin was gone what ever was behind and around it was inscribed onto the photograph. VL describes that it was very dark inside the hanger so things inscribed themselves very slowly, leaving traces of a transparent zeppelin.
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