Vera Lutter

Vera Lutter is a contemporary German photographer based in New York City. Lutter earned a degree in sculpture from the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, but her creative interests quickly changed to photography and she received a Masters Degree in Fine Arts from the New York School of Visual Arts. Vera Lutter’s most famous work involves producing black and white images of locations, such as urban centers, abandoned factories, shipyards, airports and train stations enhanced by bright light. The majority of Vera Lutter’s photos are of places within the five Boroughs of New York City. Her photos have been exhibited in galleries throughout the United States, Europe and South America. Permanent collections of her art can be seen at noteworthy art institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California; the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.; and the Art Institute of Chicago. Vera Lutter has been the recipient of a number of awards, such as the Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD_ Grant in 1993, A John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2001 and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2002. (Artist website)