Pepsi Cola Interior II: July 6-13, 2000
While the basis for Lutter’s technique—the camera obscura—is older than photography itself, her images and subject matter are wholly modern. This enormous negative print was made inside a room-sized pinhole camera that Lutter built in a derelict Pepsi-Cola bottling plant on the East River in Hunters Point, Queens. After pinning three huge sheets of photographic paper opposite the camera’s pinhole aperture, she worked inside the camera to monitor and manipulate the light during the weeklong exposure. The bottling plant itself closed in 1999 and was later demolished.
Artwork Details
- Title: Pepsi Cola Interior II: July 6-13, 2000
- Artist: Vera Lutter (German, born Kaiserslautern, 1960)
- Date: 2000
- Medium: Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions: Overall installation: 90 3/4 in. × 14 ft. 3/4 in. (230.5 × 428.6 cm)
Sheet (A): 90 in. × 55 3/4 in. (228.6 × 141.6 cm)
Sheet (B): 90 in. × 55 3/4 in. (228.6 × 141.6 cm)
Sheet (C): 90 in. × 55 3/4 in. (228.6 × 141.6 cm)
Frame (each): 90 3/4 × 56 1/4 in. (230.5 × 142.9 cm) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, Joseph M. and Barbara Cohen Foundation Inc. Gift, 2001
- Object Number: 2001.573a–c
- Rights and Reproduction: © Vera Lutter
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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