A Proposition, or, the Allure of Photography
Laura Letinsky (BFA 1986 University of Manitoba; MFA 1991 Yale University School of Art) is now a professor in the Department of Visual Art at the University of Chicago. She has exhibited at the Mumbai Photography Festival in Mumbai, India; MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; the Photographers Gallery in London; the Denver Art Museum; the Getty Museum in Los Angeles; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; and the Renaissance Society in Chicago. She is represented by the Yancey Richardson Gallery in New York City.
Her honors include the Canada Council International Residency at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, the Anonymous Was a Woman Award, and the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Her publications include Ill Form and Void Full (Radius Press, 2014), Feast (Smart Museum of Art/University of California Press, 2013), After All (Damiani, 2010), Hardly More than Ever (Renaissance Society, 2004), Blink (Phaidon Press, 2002), and Venus Inferred (University of Chicago Press, 2000).
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