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ALLISON GIAMBRUNO
BACKGROUND
Born in 1962, Laura Letinsky is a Canadian-born, Chicago-based
photographer and a professor in the Department of Visual Art at the
University of Chicago. Laura received her BFA from the University
of Manitoba in 1986 and then her MFA from Yale University's School
of Art in 1991. Laura's career focuses on the question of what
constitutes a photograph, art in academia, and perception. Her work
has been exhibited in places such as the Museum of Modern Art in
New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and the
Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
"THE PHOTOGRAPHS BECOME A KIND OF
R H E T O R I C A L F O R C E T H AT T H E N S H A P E S
H O W W E S E E A N D U N D E R S TA N D T H E
WORLD."
WORK
Laura's work is very much about more than just the food in her
still-life photos. Her interests lie in discovering what a photograph
is, especially in a social and economic context. She compares her
most recent work to the idea of "Figuring out how to get up, eat
breakfast, get my kid to school, fall in love, get sick, etc."
This artist often focuses on muted colors her reasoning being, "The resonance, or dissonance with this color combination I think speaks
to our aspiration for harmony, yet, its tentativeness is fraught with anxiety and having to hold multiple and contradictory “truths”
simultaneously"
METHODS
METHODS
COMMUNITY
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