i’m jealous of loretta lux
This is the lovely, and slightly disturbing, work of German artist Loretta Lux. Photographs? Paintings? Both? Well, Loretta is a photographer, but she studied painting at Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich… perhaps that’s why her photographs look like this! Some of these pieces take up to a year to complete, as she begins with a photograph but then digitally manipulates it by striping away the background and then dropping her subjects into these muted, dream-like environments. So pretty, and eery, and lovely, and strange… hey Wes Anderson, I think Loretta just cast your next five films!
ps. She photographs boys too, but there was just something about the girls… love love love!
{via The Lacquerie}
wow I love these!
not to mention she has a thing for blue-eyed children. Yes, I’ve come across Lux’s work before – wonderful stuff.
These are amazing. Its hard at first to pinpoint why they look so odd…. Then it hit me – they have no shadows.
YES!
They are just disproportioned and doll-like enough to be eerie and surreal. Nice work!
aren’t they fantastic! so beautiful/weird.
I am so glad you mentioned the eery element of these so delicate pictures. What seems to me like the odd factor, nevertheless beautiful, is the theme itself: children in such restrained poses. You just know these pasty blue-eyed girls do love to get muddy, playfully dirty and, naturally, colorful. It’s the containment of the theme that creates the strangeness to me. As some others mentioned, the cut-and-paste (no shadow, proportionally different) aspect of the pictures also add to it….in beautiful form. Thanks for sharing!
Loretta Lux is an fantastic artist. There is no one like her in the same field
of photography. They are so beautiful and innocent at the same time.
I have 8 works in my collection of Loretta Lux and still looking for some more. Wonderful pictures you showing.
great. bizzare and fascinating these pictures! regards from munich:) Daniela
Love her stuff, I’ve known about her for a while. 🙂
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The first time I saw her work was at an art fair in NYC about 7 years ago… it was two photographs side by side of that girl in the aqua and red dress set against a background of the sea (the third one down in your list, plus its companion piece) and I just fell in love with everything about them.
I may never be able to afford one of Lux’s actual prints, but I bought her monograph and carefully removed those two photos/pages and had them framed (they’re actually not far off from the size of her original prints). I’ve had them hanging in three different houses now and they’re still some of my favourite pieces to look at.
what a style!
check out this photographer’s style