pstrongIn iLaura Letinsky Time's Assignationi the Polaroid--now an anachronistic format, a leftover of photographic history--is conjoined with the photographer's trademark subject matter the remains of meals and appetites never entirely sated.strongppChicago-based photographer Laura Letinsky born 1962 used Polaroid Type 55 film as part of her working process until the film was discontinued in 2008, exploring focus, composition, exposure and light in black-and-white instant photographs as she worked up to the larger-scale color works for which she is best known. Like sketches, the photographs in this volume--small, slow and raw--reveal a process of asking. This way or that More or less Now or thenppA Polaroid is a fugitive thing, beautiful in its decomposition, subject to change as much as the still life compositions of ripe fruits and nibbled foods that Letinsky arranges. iTime's Assignationi collects Polaroids taken by the photographer in her studio between 1997 and 2008, now stabiliz