Points of Interest: Laura Letinsky

I recently discovered Laura Letinsky's photographs whilst trying to find images of unusual food set ups. Working in the classic still-life genre, Letinsky's images are influenced by the traditions of Seventeenth-Century dutch and Post-Impressionist painting, but remain photographic because of the distinctive angles at which the images are taken.


Jean Siméon Chardin: Still Life with Peaches, a Silver Goblet, Grapes and Walnuts approx 1759 - 1760

Laura Letinksy: Untitled 49, 2002, from the ‘I did not remember I had forgotton’ series





'Morning and Melancholia' a series of still-life photographs, focus on the relationship between narrative, visual information, and the flat surface of the picture. These photographs depict the “aftermath" of making food and eating it; greasy finger prints on a glass, wasps scavenging for something sweet, discarded worn-laden apples and fat-streaked knives began almost as details and elaborations from her earlier couples series “Venus Inferred”. In this work, Latinsky explores the formal relationship between ripeness and decay, delicacy and awkwardness, control and haphazardness, waste and plentitude, pleasure and sustenance".