Interview with Laura Letinsky
This week, the Aperture Magazine blog conducted an interview with artist Laura Letinsky, with whose work and thoughts I am greatly fascinated. Through still life photography, Letinsky conveys very interesting concepts which cannot be properly (or even remotely, for that matter) communicated with words. As such, her images are visually arresting as one tends to distill a general feeling from each piece.
Her thoughts on photography are also very interesting. I was especially taken with the part of the interview where she speaks of the capability of the photograph to normalize the value of all objects within, stating that "a piece of schmutz and a Tiffany diamond become the same thing once they’re photographed—they become photographs". Though I do not necessarily agree with everything she says in the interview, I feel that there is much that one can extract from this posting for use in their own process of conceptual thought, consciously or otherwise.
