Pepsi Cola Interior II: July 6-13, 2000

Vera Lutter

2000 · Gelatin silver print · Photographs

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.

Artist

Vera Lutter

Date

2000

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Purchase, Joseph M. and Barbara Cohen Foundation Inc. Gift, 2001