About the Author:
Loretta Lux was born in Dresden, Germany in 1969 and currently lives and works in Ireland. Her work has been exhibited extensively and is included in several collections in Europe and the United States, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Norton Museum of Art, the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung, Munich, Artothek Munich, Photo Museum Munich, and Fotomuseum Den Haag.
Review:
"Ms. Lux lights her children with too much care -- she favors an even, shadowless glaze -- for her work to be confused with a typical shopping-mall studio portrait. But she taps into the same nostalgic vein. Her wan, milky palette is reminiscent of the American commercial illustration of the 50's, a feminine color scheme that was applied to everything from postcards to baby books. Like greeting cards directed at grandmothers, Ms. Lux's candy-colored images try so hard to appeal that they appall. They are jokes about how hard we want to believe in this vision of childhood, and how easy it is to push our buttons." -- Richard B. Woodward --The New York Times
"A little girl with tousled red hair stands in an overblown rose garden, as if she were another faintly bedraggled blossom. A fair-haired toddler stares solemnly into space, a light like Vermeer's reflected in her uncannily clear blue eyes... Lux's lost little lambs reflect a broader vision of humanity." -- Leslie Camhi --Vogue
"The end result of Lux's superb art direction and meticulous digital manipulation is that her images really aren't about any one child... They are all the things that real children, to the consternation of parents, can be: awkward, distant, and unengaged, yet beautiful and fascinating in their own flawed way." "The end result of Lux's superb art direction and meticulous digital manipulation is that her images really aren't about any one child... They are all the things that real children, to the consternation of parents, can be: awkward, distant, and unengaged, yet beautiful and fascinating in their own flawed way." -- Russell Hart --American Photo
"Such painterly sensibilities coupled with her lavish attention to fabrics and texture and her deliberate choice of pale, pensive subjects create a sophisticated visual pleasure. The resulting photographs evoke conflicted feelings of childhood wonderment and ennui, innocence and worldliness; her young subjects appear wise and cherubim at the same time... Through these manipulated portraits, Lux explores not just her individual subjects, but touches on the larger idea of childhood itself." --Photo-Eye
"The sense of ambiguity that the pictures inspire makes them ciphers for the complexity of feelings about childhood and children that we, as adults, carry with us. Mirroring the way in which Lux dresses her models and fixes them in the front of a background of her own choice, we clothe these figures in our own fantasies, and superimpose our narratives of childhood onto the backdrop which they provide." -- Jane Fletcher --Portfolio: Contemporary Photography in Britain
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