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Big camera little camera / Laurie Simmons ; organized by Andrea Karnes ; Michael Auping, Andrianna Campbell, Carroll Dunham, Omar Kholeif, Marla Price, William J. Simmons, Lynne Tillman, Calvin Tomkins, Matthew Weinstein.
Fine Arts Library TR647 .S4774 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simmons, Laurie, photographer, interviewee.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Simmons, Laurie--Exhibitions.
- Simmons, Laurie.
- Simmons, Laurie--Interviews.
- Simmons, Laurie--Themes, motives.
- Photography, Artistic--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Photography, Artistic.
- Photography, Artistic--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Staged photography--New York (State)--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Staged photography.
- Staged photography--New York (State)--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Portrait photography--United States--20th century--Exhibitions.
- Portrait photography.
- Portrait photography--United States--21st century--Exhibitions.
- Miniature dolls--Pictorial works--Exhibitions.
- Miniature dolls.
- Dolls in art--Exhibitions.
- Dolls in art.
- Toys in art--Exhibitions.
- Toys in art.
- Themes, motives.
- United States.
- New York (State).
- Genre:
- Interviews.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition, pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Pictorial works.
- Physical Description:
- 262 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 33 cm
- Other Title:
- Laurie Simmons : Big camera little camera
- Place of 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.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- 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.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783791357621
- 379135762X
- OCLC:
- 1020311500
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