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(LUTTER, VERA). Newman, Michael. New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2007. First Edition. 4to. 1/4 Cloth Over Boards. Photography Monograph. Fine/No Jacket - As Issued. 64pp, 37 duotone illustrations. Designed by Kelsey Blackwell. With a biography, bibliography and exhibition history. "In two distinct and opposite series, "Venice" and "RHEINBRAUN", Vera Lutter continues to explore her fascination with the Manichean forces of nature and culture via a dialectics of representation evinced from her innovative use of the camera obscura. In her conceptual approach to this primitive form of photography, the apparatus records not only what exists in the world outside but also its own condition. By choosing to retain the negative, rather than reprinting to create a positive image, Lutter transforms the visual facts of her chosen environments into uncanny looking-glass scenes that reflect on the two principal realities of time and space". This is the exceedingly lovely hardbound catalogue issued in conjunction with a 2007 Gagosian Gallery exhibition of new large-scale unique photographs taken in Venice, Germany, New York, Philadelphia and London by the German-born, New York-based Vera Lutter. A brand new, pristine example still in the publisher's shrinkwrap. 1-932598-46-4 Inventory Number: 019049