Title:
Woman Listening to the Radio
Style: Contemporary (ca. 1945-present)
Period: 1970s
Medium: Photographs, Silver print, gelatin silver print
Year: 1978
Size: height - 7.5 in, width - 11 in, depth - 0 in
Markings: signed, numbered, dated, and titled
Edition: of 120
Estimate: from $1,500 to $2,000
Seller's Description:
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Laurie Simmons, Woman Listening to the Radio, 1978. Gelatin silver print, 7.5 x 11 in. (19.1 x 27.9 cm). Edition of 120, signed, numbered, dated, and titled.
Laurie Simmons is one of the first contemporary American photographers to have created elaborately staged narrative photographs. Using dolls to act out piquant scenarios within specially constructed environments, she has slyly commented on contemporary culture while re-creating 'a sense of the 50's that I knew was both beautiful and lethal.' Prodigiously creative, she has produced fourteen fully developed series since the 1970's.
Laurie Simmons was born on October 3, 1949 in Queens, New York. She received a B.F.A. from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia in 1971. She began photographing toys, in particular dolls from the 1950s, after working as a freelance photographer for a dollhouse miniature company. She often utilizes dolls placed in recognizable scenarios and settings as the subjects of her work. Her work has been shown in the Wiener Internationale Biennale (1981), Whitney Biennial (1985 and 1991), Bienal de São Paulo (1985), Austrian Triennial on Photography in Graz (1996), and many other museums and galleries.
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