Portfolio: Selections from "My Dark Places," photographs by Laura Larson.

The Literary Review | June 22, 2001| | Copyright

Unless animated by a child's hand and voice, a doll is dead, and the rooms in a dollhouse, frozen in their arrangement, can have a certain airless malevolence.

Laura Larson's haunting photographs in the series "My Dark Places" heighten that sinister quality. But the photographs also enliven these rooms with movement, as if the crime had just occurred, the criminal racing out the door beyond the frame, as if we were walking into the room, eyeing the evidence that might be checked for fingerprints.

The photographs brilliantly fiddle with one's preconceived ...

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