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Loretta Lux was born in Dresden, Germany, in In she left East Germany for Munich, a few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall. From –96, she studied at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich.

Trained as a painter, Lux began taking photographs in

Although Lux first experimented with self-portraits in works like The Hush () and Self-Portrait (), she soon transitioned to images of children and adolescents, typically the offspring of friends who she often used as models.

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Her subjects, with gazes ambiguously empty yet psychologically activated, assume formal poses and appear in calculated garb and hairstyles. Employing photography, painting, and computer manipulation, Lux alters the images, extracting extraneous details, distorting proportions, and setting the children against mediated backgrounds that exist somewhere between Old Master paintings and cheesy studio-portrait backdrops.

Lux&#;s earliest works set children against icy blue skies, for example in Troll (), Lois (),