Les Krims (b. 1942)

Literally glutted with detail, vignettes by Les Krims are enigmatic, quasi-narrative images that critique the sexual identity of women, American society, and artifice. His work also, in part, pays homage to staged studio vignettes by nineteenth-century photographers. Krims’s hallucinogenic compositions bear no relation to reality, yet they reflect the crass detritus of consumerism and question the aesthetics of everyday life.           (Nancy Weekly)