Venus Inferred

Rating:
Summary: Nothing new here, folks; move along.
Review: From the warmed-over Velvet Underground reference in the title (and what the hell is she trying to say by using the word "inferred?") begins the parade of cliches in this book of mediocre faux-documentary photography.

To wit; Yale graduate student photographs other self-absorbed New York types pretending to make love. Heavy emphasis on recycled Nan Goldin archetypes. Other photographers do this better, but now that Goldin's off the wagon I guess everyone's trying out for her spot in the limelight.

Check out Letinksy's site at the University of Chicago for a laundry list of over-chewed postmodernist discussion about romance and photography. Heavy use of the term "informed by" should tip you off that this is just the waking embodient of an academic's wet dream.

Rating:
Summary: Nothing new here, folks; move along.
Review: From the warmed-over Velvet Underground reference in the title (and what the hell is she trying to say by using the word "inferred?") begins the parade of cliches in this book of mediocre faux-documentary photography.

To wit; Yale graduate student photographs other self-absorbed New York types pretending to make love. Heavy emphasis on recycled Nan Goldin archetypes. Other photographers do this better, but now that Goldin's off the wagon I guess everyone's trying out for her spot in the limelight.

Check out Letinksy's site at the University of Chicago for a laundry list of over-chewed postmodernist discussion about romance and photography. Heavy use of the term "informed by" should tip you off that this is just the waking embodient of an academic's wet dream.

Rating:
Summary: the look of...love?
Review: This is art photography at its' best--like Winogrand, Tina Barney, or Sturges, but emotionally much more raw. Letinsky's images turn conventional stereotypes upside down in this most provacative work.