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Laurie Simmons is one of the first contemporary American photographers to have created elaborate narrative photographs. Using dolls to act out provocative scenarios in specially constructed settings, she has wryly commented on contemporary culture while recreating “a sense of the 1950s 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 shed light on the ideas that run through the artist’s entire body of work. The deliberately ambiguous interactions between objects, figures, and settings, and the way in which objects (toys, cakes, guns) and settings (suburban interiors, theatrical scenes) take on strange powers in Laurie Simmons’ photographs.
Published by Aperture, 2005
25 cm 29 cm 160 pages, in good condition
ISBN -931-788-59-5
Laurie Simmons is one of the first contemporary American photographers to have created elaborate narrative photographs. Using dolls to act out provocative scenarios in specially constructed settings, she has wryly commented on contemporary culture while recreating “a sense of the 1950s 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 shed light on the ideas that run through the artist’s entire body of work. The deliberately ambiguous interactions between objects, figures, and settings, and the way in which objects (toys, cakes, guns) and settings (suburban interiors, theatrical scenes) take on strange powers in Laurie Simmons’ photographs.
Published by Aperture, 2005
25 cm 29 cm 160 pages, in good condition
ISBN -931-788-59-5
