"This fully illustrated multi-author exhibition catalogue introduces an inspiring collection of photography to scholars and the public. There was a whole collection made mines the Estate of Lester and Betty Guttman s 2014 gift of 830 photographic works by 414 artists to the Smart Museum of Art. Over thirty years, the Guttmans amassed an expansive collection of great photographs that span the very earliest days of the medium to the near- ..."
LauraLetinsky Time's Assignation: The Polaroids by Nathalie Herschdorfer, LauraLetinsky Hardcover, 180 Pages, Published 2017 by Radius Books ISBN-13: 978-1-942185-22-2, ISBN: 1-942185-22-7
"In Laura Letinsky: Time's Assignation the Polaroid--now an anachronistic format, a leftover of photographic history--is conjoined with the photographer's trademark subject matter: the remains of meals and appetites never entirely sated.Chicago-based photographer Laura Letinsky (born 1962) used Polaroid Type 55 film as part of her working process until the film was discontinued in 2008, exploring focus, composition, exposure and light in ..."
"The exhibition "Space/Sight/Self" was designed to study the role of portraiture in contemporary art as a nexus of three issues - identity, vision and place. The goal was to produce a portrait, as it were, of contemporary portraiture. This catalogue documents the exhibition and helps to facilitate viewers' reflections and responses about the spaces, sights and selves that enable us to construct and question our identity."
"Chicago-based photographer Laura Letinsky (born 1962) is known for her depictions of the remnants of foods and objects common to the dining table, ranging from a lipstick-smeared half-empty wine glass to nibbled-upon cakes over ripe fruits. These works have commonly used an actual tabletop as their point of origin. For her new series "Ill Form & Void Full," she creates references to the table from existing photographs, "Martha Stewart," ..."
"LAURA LETINSKY. HARDLY MORE THAN EVER: PHOTOGRAPHS 1997-2004
Published in 2004 / Renaissance Society University of Chicago
2004, 164 pp, 62 color, 1 b/w illus., hardcover
ISBN 0-941548-48-1
Essay by Hanneke Grootenboer, fiction by Diane Williams
Laura Letinsky: Hardly More Than Ever is the first catalogue of Laura Letinsky's still life photographs. Despite the cloak of casual disregard shown to neglected foodstuffs and dirty dishes, ..."
"In This Is Not It, Lynne Tillman's collection of 20 years' worth of important and compelling short stories and novellas, the protagonists seduce you into their lives and thoughts. Engaging, funny, elegant, and ironic, Tillman takes the reader to new heights of wit and meaning through staccato phrases, grammatical twists, and sensuous language. Familiar worlds of honesty, deceit, dark humor, pleasure, pain, confusion, dependence, love, a ..."
MFA, 1996 by LauraLetinsky 13 Pages, Published 1996 ISBN-13: 978-0-935573-16-9, ISBN: 0-935573-16-X
"We are all, it is said, looking for love. But what does love look like? Does it look the way it feels? The visual vocabulary of romance-its attendant comforts and vulnerabilities, ambivalences and unclarities-is the subject of Venus Inferred. This collection of 46 richly reproduced color photographs is Laura Letinsky's study of contemporary lovers as they are seen, as they show, and as they see themselves making love and inhabiting dome ..."
"Located in Rochester, New York, Eastman Kodak was one of the world's leading manufacturers of photographic film for 125 years. Following the company's declaration of bankruptcy in 2012, photographers Alex Webb (born 1952) and Rebecca Norris Webb (born 1956) traveled to Rochester to capture images of the city during the twilight of Kodak's existence. "Memory City" responds to the uncertain future of Kodak film as a medium by presenting a ..."
"The pages of Suitcase intertwine the freshest mix of writing, art, and photography from around the world. From Amos Oz's tale of epiphany at the border between Israeli desert and suburbia to Nuruddin Farah's account of surviving childhood, crocodiles, and colonialism in Somalia; from Jacques Derrida's reflections on politics and immigration in a new Europe to Seydou Keita's historic photographs of Mali's changing society, Suit ..."
"A highly original collection of essays that explore the relationship between food and architecture―the preparation of meals and the production of space.The contributors to this highly original collection of essays explore the relationship between food and architecture, asking what can be learned by examining the (often metaphorical) intersection of the preparation of meals and the production of space. In a culture that includes the Food ..."
"The setup is classic and familiar: a table draped with a white cloth, a dish of fruit, a sugar bowl. Yet instead of the meal awaiting an unseen viewer's consumption, as in a classic still life, Laura Letinsky photographs what remains on the table after the food has been eaten, leaving only crumbs, melon rinds, a cantaloupe pocked with rot and a half-finished lollipop. Letinsky explores the inextricable relationship between ripeness and ..."
LauraLetinsky Now Again (w/ Dutch Translation) (Dutch Edition) by LauraLetinsky, Karen Irvine Hardcover, 120 Pages, Published 2006 by Exhibitions International/Galerie Kusseneers ISBN-13: 978-90-76732-09-1, ISBN: 90-76732-09-4
"Laura Letinsky's photo series Hardly More Than Ever records, in the style of Flemish still-life painters of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the aftermath of human consumption, capturing sunny tables against white walls, crumbs, orange peels, melon rinds and candy wrappers. Like her forebears, Letinsky evidences human presence through its absence, suggests death through decay (in this case, of peonies and half-eaten toast) and t ..."