
Laurie Simmons
Big Camera/Little Camera
Andrea Karnes(Author)
Prestel (Publisher)
Published on 1. October 2018
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-3-7913-5762-1 (ISBN)
Description
Gender roles and identity, reality and its distortion, and the psychologically loaded myth of "normal life" are recurrent themes in Laurie Simmons's work. Taken chronologically, her career has followed a trajectory from miniature to full size, black-and-white to color, mechanical to human. Over more than four decades, the artist's authentic gaze has remained unflinching, whether she is composing tableaux of plastic figurines and props, or painting the eyelids of glamorous models and transforming them into doll-like humans with an unsettling stare. Her well-known series, such as "Walking and Lying Objects" and "The Instant Decorator," are featured here along with lesser-known series that explore underwater photography, self-portraiture, and a feature film starring Meryl Streep and a plastic dummy. The book includes an essay on Simmons's early iconic photographs, while other writings take closer looks at specific and more recent series. Renowned art historian and curator Michael Auping's interview with Simmons rounds out this book.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Munich
Germany
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
245 illustrations, 170 in colour
Dimensions
Height: 305 mm
Width: 230 mm
Weight
567 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-7913-5762-1 (9783791357621)
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Persons
ANDREA KARNES is Senior Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in Texas.
Author
Contributions
Preface