WALKING TALKING LYING - Laurie Simmons
Laurie Simmons was one of the first contemporary American photographers to create elaborate narrative photographs. Using dolls to play out prickly scenarios in specially constructed environments, she slyly commented on contemporary culture while recreating "a sense of the '50s that I knew was both beautiful and deadly." Prodigiously creative, she has produced fourteen complete series since the 1970s. In Laurie Simmons: Walking, Talking, Lying, Kate Linker focuses on selected series - from "Ventriloquism", "Walking Objects" and "Lying Objects" to the 1997 self-portraits and "Café of the Inner Mind" - to illuminate the ideas that run through the artist's body of work. The deliberately ambiguous interactions between objects, figures and settings, and the way objects (toys, cakes, guns) and settings (suburban interiors, theater scenes) take on strange powers in Laurie Simmons' photographs.
Published by Aperture, 2005
25 cm x 29 cm , 160 pages, good condition
ISBN 978-1- 931-788-59-5
Laurie Simmons was one of the first contemporary American photographers to create elaborate narrative photographs. Using dolls to play out prickly scenarios in specially constructed environments, she slyly commented on contemporary culture while recreating "a sense of the '50s that I knew was both beautiful and deadly." Prodigiously creative, she has produced fourteen complete series since the 1970s. In Laurie Simmons: Walking, Talking, Lying, Kate Linker focuses on selected series - from "Ventriloquism", "Walking Objects" and "Lying Objects" to the 1997 self-portraits and "Café of the Inner Mind" - to illuminate the ideas that run through the artist's body of work. The deliberately ambiguous interactions between objects, figures and settings, and the way objects (toys, cakes, guns) and settings (suburban interiors, theater scenes) take on strange powers in Laurie Simmons' photographs.
Published by Aperture, 2005
25 cm x 29 cm , 160 pages, good condition
ISBN 978-1- 931-788-59-5
Laurie Simmons was one of the first contemporary American photographers to create elaborate narrative photographs. Using dolls to play out prickly scenarios in specially constructed environments, she slyly commented on contemporary culture while recreating "a sense of the '50s that I knew was both beautiful and deadly." Prodigiously creative, she has produced fourteen complete series since the 1970s. In Laurie Simmons: Walking, Talking, Lying, Kate Linker focuses on selected series - from "Ventriloquism", "Walking Objects" and "Lying Objects" to the 1997 self-portraits and "Café of the Inner Mind" - to illuminate the ideas that run through the artist's body of work. The deliberately ambiguous interactions between objects, figures and settings, and the way objects (toys, cakes, guns) and settings (suburban interiors, theater scenes) take on strange powers in Laurie Simmons' photographs.
Published by Aperture, 2005
25 cm x 29 cm , 160 pages, good condition
ISBN 978-1- 931-788-59-5
