Organized by the MFA Houston in association with NOMA, Vera Lutter: Inverted Worlds elevates the current role of the negative from a nearly invisible part of the photography process to the chief object of our attention. Vera Lutter’s photographs are one-of-a-kind negative prints made inside a room-sized pinhole camera with exposures that range from hours to days. Finely detailed and mesmerizing images, Lutter’s photographs present a kind of parallel universe to the one we know, tonally reversed and laterally mirrored—light is dark, left is right. Highlights of this exhibition include twelve large-scale prints of landscapes and industrial subjects.

Partners

Vera Lutter: Inverted Worlds is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in association with the New Orleans Museum of Art. The New Orleans presentation is sponsored in part by Milly and George Denegre and Adrea Heebe and Dominick Russo. Additional support is provided by Dr. Siddharth K. Bhansali.