Laura Letinsky’s image Untitled #54 is featured in the course notes and is from from the series Hardly More Than Ever which Letinsky shot over a seven year period from 1997 to 2004. The book is subtitled, The Posthumous Life of Leftovers and features images of the leftovers of meals along with text and poetry. Whilst the images definitely show sign of life with people being absent, I’m not sure how I feel about them. I think that the iamges are somewhat repetitive and the staging too contrived, as though the idea has been overdone.

By contrast her series Somewhere, Somewhere I find much more interesting. The work, which appears to have been produced in ten year period from 2004 to 2014 shows the interiors of houses after their occupants have moved out and before anyone else has moved in.

I think I prefer this work to Hardly More Than Ever as I find the space more evocative than the remnants of meals and eating. I also think there is more variety to the images and that the emptiness is more powerful.

Sources

Laura Letinsky → SOMEWHERE,SOMEWHERE (s.d.) At: https://lauraletinsky.com/photographs/somewheresomewhere/ (Accessed 27/06/2020).