Untitled #64 from Hardly More than Ever

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dc.accrualMethodPurchase supported by friends of the McIninch Art Gallery
dc.contributor.authorLetinsky, Laura
dc.date.accessioned2019-04-17T13:07:31Z
dc.date.available2019-04-17T13:07:31Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.descriptionThroughout her career, Laura Letinsky has engaged with the fundamental question of what precisely constitutes a photograph. Investigating photography’s relationship with reality, Letinsky began by photographing people but shifted to focusing almost exclusively on objects in the form of the still life. Her large-scale, carefully crafted scenes often focus on the remnants of a meal or party, as she plays with ideas about perception and the transformative qualities of the photograph. For one of her earlier, long-term series, Hardly More Than Ever (1997-2004), Letinsky arranged and photographed leftover food and used crockery, along with various objects such as vases or fruit bowls. Thinking of the photographs in this series as observations of overlooked or forgotten details and remnants of daily existence, Letinsky ultimately transforms this refuse into a subject worthy of close study - objects of real beauty. Her more recent series Ill Form & Void Full (2010-2014), explores the tension between material and image, as Letinsky extracts elements from already existing imagery in magazines of food and domestic wares, calling attention to the constructed nature of all photographs. Letinsky was born in 1962 in Winnipeg, Canada. She received her BFA from the University of Manitoba in 1986, and MFA from Yale University’s School of Art in 1991. Letinsky has held teaching positions at a number of prestigious American colleges, and since 1994 she has been a Professor in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Chicago. Further information is available on the artist website.
dc.digSpecs26" x 18"en_US
dc.identifier.accession2012.01
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10474/3448
dc.rightsImage ( if available) reproduced with permission. All rights reserved.en_US
dc.sourceImage ( if available) derived from original artwork owned by the McIninch Art Gallery.en_US
dc.subject.otherStill Life, Photograph, Fruit, Residue, Natureen_US
dc.subject.otherArchival Pigment Print ( edition if 9)
dc.titleUntitled #64 from Hardly More than Everen_US
dc.typeImageen_US

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