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About Laurie Simmons. Laurie Simmons moved to New York in 1973, where she encountered a wide range of approaches to photography. It was a territory open to exploration, particularly for women artists. In the 1970s Simmons was at the forefront of a new generation of artists pursuing the uncommon artistic tradition of staging fictional scenes to ...
In the mid-1970s, Laurie Simmons began arranging dolls and dollhouse furniture into scenes that she would then photograph.. “Setting up small rooms with dolls in them was a way for me to experience photography without taking my camera out to the street,” she explained.
Dec 2, 2012 · Laurie Simmons’s sense of scale. Simmons’s first show opened at Artists Space in January, 1979. She didn’t want to include any photographs that had dolls in them—the associations still ...
In Simmons's first photographs, made in the mid–1970s, female dolls in dollhouse interiors cook and clean, performing the typical chores of a housewife. Both the dolls and the stereotypes they embody evoke middle-class America in the 1950s.
Apr 27, 2018 · Laurie Simmons at her home studio, in Cornwall, Conn., where she is preparing two new gallery shows. She has moved from photographing dolls to more emotionally stark photo-based portraits ...
May 6, 2020 · Laurie Simmons, Giorgio Armani Waltzing Figures, 1984. Photo: Laurie Simmons / Courtesy Salon 94. The photographer’s “Fake Fashion” series dates to the mid-1980s and grew out of an ...
Dec 8, 2022 · Laurie Simmons always starts with an idea—usually something in the world, something that she wants to see. “Then [the artwork] becomes very grounded in a kind of reality: my reality. But the way something eventually looks—that’s all intuition, alchemy, magic.
