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Laura Letinsky is Professor in the Department of Visual Arts. Her still life photography often focuses on questions of materialism and consumerism, as well as transformation and sensation. Her color photographic series have been shown at museums and galleries worldwide including the Yancey Richardson Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Nederlands Foto Institute, the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, and the Shine Gallery in London. A recent collection of her photographs, Ill Form and Void Full (Radius Press, 2015), was nominated by The New York Times as one of the Best Photo Books of 2015.