Laurie Simmons, Photographs 1978/79

2003

71 pages. 47 color reproductions. Clothbound. This book contains a new essay by Collier Schorr. Out of print. "This book represents the first body of color works by the artist Laurie Simmons. The Interiors and Bog Figures are a group of two series of photographs that consist of constructed interiors and manipulated exteriors. Within these constructed spaces, Simmons explores the boundaries of reality and fantasy, and of nostalgic memories and idealisms. There are no greater iconic images to depict a post World War II, 1950's. suburbia than housewives and cowboys. In a time when television became the most influential form of mass media, female and male identities were formulated through commercials, advertisements, and movies."