Columbia College Chicago artist-in-residence Vera Lutter has begun construction of four room-size camera obscura—in which light passes through a tiny aperture in a darkened chamber, producing an inverted image on the opposite surface plane—Lutter make unmediated photographs of the world beyond the room. The result is a one-of-a-kind, reversed negative picture with no sign of people or cars: an eerie cityscape with dark skies and light shadows, where everything is clear, but uncanny. Lutter will discuss the selection of appropriate sites for the camera obscura, the process of making the camera and the resulting work in a free lecture Thursday, Oct. 11, at 6:30 p.m. in the Hokin Auditorium, 623 S. Wabash Ave.
This will be the first time Lutter, who has made pictures in New York, Cleveland, and Frankfurt, Germany, will photograph in Chicago. The resulting work will be exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Photography March 22-June 15. For more information, call (312) 663-5554.
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