Laura Letinsky: Untitled #7, from the series Albeit, 2010

For over 25 years, Laura Letinsky has made photographs that investigate the still-life genre. For this series, Letinsky carefully arranged tablecloths, napkins, cutlery, and plates with flat images taken from decor and cooking magazines and scanned art reproductions (of her own and others’ work). The composite images are then put together into new formal arrangements with various perspectives. Placing everyday foods—from lollypops to peeled fruit—against a backdrop of near-blinding white, she creates tableaux that bring our attention to the moment after: the overripe melon, the leftover, the morning-after-the-party tabletop, all metaphors for what remains, what stains, what cannot be avoided.

The artist has said of the work in this series, “my pictures’ mash-up, high to low, domestic to the public, personal to social, is, when photographed, rendered as . . . photograph, no more, no less than object and image, a still life.”

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