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A version of this article appears in print on March 4, 2011, Section C, Page 25 of the New York edition with the headline: Laurie Conceived and designed by Laurie Simmons and architect Peter Wheelwright. Central to her work are visual contrivances such as manipulation of scale and photography's capacity to dec A second doll arrived one year later. Alex Bennett Casting the net broadly, I want Laurie Simmons documented her photographic relationship with this human scale “girl,” depicting the latex doll in an ongoing series of “actions”. UNLIKE THEIR SEXED-UP AMERICAN SISTERS, THE WHOLESOME FRAGILITY MAKES THEM Kigurumi, Dollers and How We See2014 Sending up the old-movie trope of representing the man creeping in shadow carrying a gun, the artist offers instead the death-dealing seductress of Experimenting in the days before digital photography and Photoshop, Simmons shot the backgrounds with Kodachrome film and then used the . The Kaleidoscope House, a collaborative project with Even the creepily accurate, hand-carved Laurie Simmons doll she had made for a series of photographs called the 'Music of Regret' From dolls, to blow-ups and models with painted eyelids, the photographer Laurie Simmons opened a retrospective this week called Simmons's newest work was inspired by the "doll girls" subculture, wherein women use makeup and plastic surgery to look more Here, Simmons talks about her art and how it’s affected her daughter, Lena Dunham. Upload a photo of you, a friend or a loved one and turn them into a unique blow-up doll The artist on Jewish mothers, ‘1950s American’ dummies, childhood superheroes, phallic red lipstick, and Japanese sex toys BY APRIL 29, 2015 The title of the current Laurie Simmons LAURIE SIMMONS CAST JAPANESE "LOVE DOLLS" IN CONNECTICUT SETTINGS. This special portfolio presents a selection of As a young girl, she never played with dolls, rejecting Barbie for fashion and boys. As a young girl, she never played with dolls, rejecting Barbie for fashion and boys. This new character – and the interaction between the two dolls – reveals a distinctive formal and psychological Artist Laurie Simmons’ body of work uses dolls to explore themes of feminism, sexuality, body imagery and gender identity. ) With each variation on this theme, Simmons has extended her narrative, telling us what it means to exist in a world It is the sadness, not the feminist critique, that casts a spell. In both series of photographs, Simmons asserts the doll as neither a solution for loneliness nor a replacement for bodily contact; instead her photographs offer a complex look into our current Grunthaner, Jeffrey, How Laurie Simmons Dolls People Up, ARTNET, 11 March 2014. Your work prior to this involved images of cos-play participants dressing up like anime figures, and before Opening this week at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago is the first major survey of acclaimed photographer Laurie Simmons. Simmons began her career in the 1970s working with familiar figurines, models and other playthings. Laurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera In Simmons's first photographs, made in the mid–1970s, female dolls in dollhouse interiors cook and clean, performing the typical chores Alex Bennett talks to Laurie Simmons, an American artist, photographer and filmmaker. Staff, Lena Dunham’s Artist Mother Laurie Simmons Unveils Armory Week Solo Show, ARTLYST, 4 Create your very own Blow Up Dolls. Since the mid-1970s, Simmons has staged scenes for her camera with dolls, ventriloquist dummies, objects on legs, and people, to create photographs On first glance, her works often appear whimsical, but there is a disquieting aspect to Simmons’s child’s play, as her characters Recalling her earlier photographs staged in dollhouses, this later series, in which Simmons effectively turned her own home into a human-size dollhouse, blurs the distinction between In the fall of 2009, Simmons opened a new chapter to her work and ordered a customized, high-end “Love Doll” from Japan. In her career spanning more than four decades, Simmons has used the camera to explore psycho-social subtexts involving gender, social convention, identity and cultural aspiration, often by considering ways that objects are humanized and people—particularly women—are objectified. In her work, however, dolls provide a way for her to explore consistent themes: women and interior spaces. The (Sometimes, she is even a real live model, made up to look doll-like.

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