Laughlin went through a great many style changes in his photographs. Only a few will be looked at and discussed. During his early career, he focused on taking pictures involving glass. He was fascinated with glass "because it acts so variably and subtly with light: offers so many suggestions that so-called reality is not the simple thing we usually conceive it to be: that reality embodies many planes and many kinds of meanings". Laughlin believed that it gave off a "magic quality". He also was drawn to taking pictures of the old, desolate and worn down buildings of New Orleans. Laughlin felt that these buildings, due to their appearance, were "lost in time". He treated them as "psychological and poetic documents" and not as ordinary historical pieces of architecture. He brought them meaning. During his mid career he began to perform color experiments. Laughlin believed "that there are a great many more relationships between paintings and photo

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