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Oct 19, 2017 · On a trip to Japan with her younger daughter in 2009, Simmons encountered a Japanese “love doll”—a life-sized and highly realistic latex mannequin designed for sex and companionship. Simmons was intrigued.
Simmons’s series The Love Doll, 2009–11, moves away from 1950s dolls and props in miniature to contemporary, life-size dolls that are staged in real-life settings.
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Artist Laurie Simmons’ body of work uses dolls to explore themes of feminism, sexuality, body imagery and gender identity. This special portfolio presents a selection of pieces inspired by and...
Oct 15, 2018 · Laurie Simmons Explores Memory And Domesticity With Dolls. New York artist Laurie Simmons made her first feature film this year, called “My Art.”. She’s also the mother of Lena Dunham, creator of the show “Girls.”. But it’s Simmons photography that takes center stage at a major retrospective of her work on view at Modern Art Museum ...
Laurie Simmons (born October 3, 1949) is an American artist, photographer and filmmaker. Since the mid-1970s, Simmons has staged scenes for her camera with dolls, ventriloquist dummies, objects on legs, and people, to create photographs that reference domestic scenes.
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Laurie Simmons played a significant role in exploring the image and expectations of women in the post-war United States, using photographs centered around dolls and the domestic sphere to quietly subvert familiar models of feminine identity.
In the mid 1980s and 1990s, she produced several series of photographs that use these articulated dolls to explore masculine experience and self-presentation. Years later, a film Simmons directed in 2006 would prominently feature the same dummies alongside a lead performance by Meryl Streep.
