Loretta Lux
Dresden born, Loretta Lux's photographs are uncanny. At first glance,
you might mistake these works for paintings. Like prototypes, the children have alabaster skin, porcelain bodies, a penetrating stare, composure, fragility and an aura of ethereal radiance. They express the secret and the magic of a child's world. Her work bonds three media: photography, painting and digital effects. The process is rigorously painstaking. She directs
children with instructions of how they must act and pose and photographs the models in carefully selected costumes. The figures are placed in an artificial pastoral setting. After the
production of the photograph, she digitally enhances the images to get this extraordinary effect.Sharifa Jamaldin
Loretta Lux says her pictures of children are not portraits in the traditional sense. “They are imaginary portraits dealing with the idea of Childhood. Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of carelessness, innocence and unity. But the imaginary kingdom is nothing more than a projection of adult ideas and concerns onto the image, an expression of our own yearnings. By photographing children alone, divorced from any social setting, I allow them to exist on their own…I am exploring the equivocal connection between self and world.”
Pluk (cover story)
Press quotes from the Loretta Lux website.
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seriocomic
Comment on February 5, 2004 at 8:59 pm
spooky!
Lars Holst
Comment on February 6, 2004 at 1:23 am
creepy!
sergio
Comment on February 8, 2004 at 7:47 pm
trippy!
France
Comment on February 8, 2004 at 9:09 pm
Freaky! Village of the Damned anyone?
Renee Dunaway
Comment on April 13, 2004 at 6:56 pm
Does anyone know how I can contact Ms. Lux, or her agent?
Lars Holst
Comment on April 13, 2004 at 8:00 pm
The Loretta Lux website has a contact page (the link hides beneath a broken image on the home page): http://lorettalux.de/contact.htm.
Laura Beson
Comment on April 19, 2004 at 4:10 pm
I adore Loretta's work and would love getting in contact.
Does anyone have a clue how?
Joset Loret
Comment on April 19, 2004 at 7:20 pm
Ms. Lux's work is absolutely magnificent! I love her use of different mediums to achieve such ideal, enchanting pictures. The childrens' expressions, the colors, and settings are enchanting. I am hoping for a book of her work to be published soon. Thanks Ms. Lux for creating a beauty of your own.
Gordon Smith
Comment on February 16, 2005 at 4:31 am
I recently attended the ‘05 AIPAD show in NYC where I was introduced to Loretta’s images for the very first time. The work is fabulous !! Her New York dealer (Y. Milo) said that the editions were completely sold out - am sure she will have a fantastic career as a gallery artist. And, if the self-portrait on her website is any indication of how she really looks, she’s as gorgeous as she is talented ! (and this being said by a documentary photographer….. )
R A Clayton
Comment on July 11, 2006 at 1:58 am
Powerful. Stunning.
Tomas
Comment on November 5, 2006 at 7:41 pm
Check it out
http://www.photo.net/photos/Lorance