Lux was born in 1969 in Dresden, Germany. In 1990 she graduated from the Academy of Visual Arts in Munich, with a major in painting. Her big debut came in 2004 at the Yossi Milo Gallery in New York. According to Wikipedia, “The show put both Yossi Milo and Loretta Lux on the map, selling out and setting new prices never before seen from a new gallery.” Lux is well known for her photographs of young children, which combine painting and digital manipulation. Her photographs are manipulated in such a way that the children seem ghostly and disturbing, too large for their surroundings or too surreal. Lux says about the children in her work, “I never allow then to wear their own clothes. My work isn’t about these children. You can recognize them, but they are alienated from their real appearance” (arts telegraph.co.uk). Using Photoshop she manipulates the color of their skin and the scale of their bodies, making the viewer realize all at once that something is unnatural about these children.
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http://www.yossimilo.com/artists/lore_lux/
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