Taking off from the Dutch 17th-century still life known as a vanitas, a work containing symbols of mortality, the photographer Laura Letinsky deploys props like half-nibbled sweets, wilted blossoms, dirty glasses and crumb-strewn tablecloths in artfully unartful arrangements that are as flatly unders
French Canadian artist Robert Polidori creates meticulously detailed, large-scale colour photographs. Polidori, now living in New York, has exhibited widely in the US, France and Germany and had his first solo exhibition in the UK, at Flowers Central in September 2005.
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