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 decay, delicacy and clumsiness, waste and plenitude, pleasure and sustenance. The ...
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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 decay, delicacy and clumsiness, waste and plenitude, pleasure and sustenance. The influence of Dutch-Flemish and Italian still-life paintings--whose exacting beauty documented shifting social attitudes resulting from exploration, colonization, economics and ideas about seeing as a kind of truth--can be seen here as well. In After All , Letinsky explores photography's transformative quality, changing what is typically overlooked into something splendid in its resilience. Poet Mark Strand contributes an essay to this marvelous volume.
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New. 2011. Multilingual. Hardcover. Num Pages: 96 pages, 55 col ills. BIC Classification: AJB; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 288 x 14. Weight in Grams: 864......We ship daily from our Bookshop.
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New. No dust jacket as issued. First edition, first printing. Signed in black ink on the title page by Letinsky. Hardcover. Photographically illustrated paper-covered boards; no dust jacket as issued. Photographs by Laura Letinsky. Foreword (in English, French and Italian) by Mark Strand. Includes captions to the plates, an exhibition history, collections, selected reviews and articles and a selected bibliography. 96 pp., with 54 four-color plates. 9-3/4 x 11-1/4 inches. New in publisher's shrink wrap. From the artist: "Photography's transformative quality changes what is typically overlooked into something splendid in its resilience. I want to look at what is 'after the fact, ' at what (ma)lingers, at what persists, and by inference, at what is gone." Signed by Author.
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