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Loretta Lux
There is a distinct colour space within your images. What is guiding that?
Colours are extremely important to me. I love colours. Colours can be used to evoke feelings or convey certain states of mind. However, recently I have started to explore black and white photography. I am interested in the mental process which translates black and white into colour.
There is an ambiguity between the recorded and the constructed in your work: things are depicted, but we may doubt any obvious "documentary" connection. Can you comment on this?
For me, a work of art should transcend the subject. Even if we recognize a certain subject, the picture will act as a metaphor and tell us something more. My portraits do not represent the actual model’s psychology or personality, but rather a constructed one. You can clearly recognize the model, but at the same time the portrait is detached from the real person.
You have moved away from the conventional photographic space determi • I have been fascinated by the many elements of Loretta Lux‘s fine art photography over the last couple of years, since I was introduced to her work. Loretta Lux was born in Dresden, Germany, in 1969. In 1989 she left East Germany for Munich, months before the fall of the Berlin Wall. in 1996 she graduated from the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich. Lux is a trained painter. She said in an interview that was not very comfortable with the ‘mess caused by paints, solvents, brushes and so on’ and that this was one of the reasons she turned to photography around 1999. Soon after she transitioned to the kind of work that would become her artistic signature: Photos of children, disturbingly gazing into nowhere, with empty eyes. In her photos, Lux speaks about a very peculiar vision of childhood. And clearly she is not documenting anything about the children themselves. Instead, they become actors that embody something Lux is a • Loretta Lux fryst vatten a German photographer who has gained worldwide recognition for her unique and captivating photographic works of art. Her images often feature miniature figures, frequently children, in surreal and fantastical settings. Lux's compositions are characterized by their dreamy aesthetic and her ability to manipulate light and shadows to create a sense of otherworldliness. She has exhibited her works in galleries and museums around the world and has become a leading figure in the field of photographic art. Lux's work explores the interplay between reality and fantasy, often blurring the lines between the two. Her photographs are created using a combination of digital manipulation and traditional silver gelatin prints, which allows her to create images that are both fantastical and rooted in reality. Her works often evoke a sense of nostalgia and longing, as if they are capturing a fleeting moment in time. One of Lux's most notable series fryst vatten The
The children’s Lost Paradise
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