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Laurie Simmons : big camera/little camera

Title
Laurie Simmons : big camera/little camera / organized by Andrea Karnes ; with contributions by Michael Auping [and eight others].
Publication
  • Fort Worth, TX : Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth ; Munich ; London ; New York, NY : DelMonico Books, an imprint of Prestel, a member of Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH, 2018.
  • ©2018

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Additional Authors
  • Karnes, Andrea
  • Auping, Michael
  • Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, issuing body, publisher, organizer, host institution.
  • Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, Ill.), host institution.
Description
262 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 33 cm
Summary
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. In conjunction with an exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, this 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.
Subject
  • Simmons, Laurie > Exhibitions
  • Simmons, Laurie > Criticism and interpretation
  • Simmons, Laurie > Themes, motives
  • Simmons, Laurie > Interviews
  • Simmons, Laurie
  • Photography, Artistic > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Photography, Artistic > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Staged photography > New York (State) > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Staged photography > New York (State) > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Portrait photography > United States > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Portrait photography > United States > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Art, Modern > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Art, Modern > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Miniature dolls > Pictorial works > Exhibitions
  • Jewish women artists > New York (State) > 20th century > Exhibitions
  • Jewish women artists > New York (State) > 21st century > Exhibitions
  • Miniature dolls
  • Photography, Artistic
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogs.
  • Essays.
  • Photobooks.
  • Portraits.
  • Exhibition, pictorial works.
  • Interviews.
Note
  • Catalog of exhibitions held at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, October 14, 2018-January 27, 2019 and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, February 23-May 5, 2019.
Contents
Preface and acknowledgments / Marla Price -- Finding Jane / Andrea Karnes -- A doll's house: Laurie Simmons's sense of scale / Calvin Tomkins -- Laurie Simmons: stages / Michael Auping -- Misconstruction/deconstruction: Laurie Simmons and the pictures generation / William J. Simmons -- Room underneath (Gold) / Carroll Dunham -- Stranger spaces / Lynne Tillman -- Two boys / Matthew Weinstein -- Laurie Simmons: facet and fashion / Andrianna Campbell -- A portrait of an artist: the films of Laurie Simmons / Omar Kholeif.
ISBN
  • 379135762X
  • 9783791357621
LCCN
2018944189
OCLC
  • on1099139895
  • SCSB-9187172
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library