Laurie Simmons
Laurie Simmons
Laurie Simmonsis an American artist, photographer and filmmaker currently working in New York and Northwestern Connecticut. 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth3 October 1949
CountryUnited States of America
moments not-interested
I'm not interested in telling a story in my photographic work. I'm more interested in freezing certain moments in time.
people dumb copying
I was aware that people thought a certain type of photo work was either stealing, borrowing, copying or dumb.
messages scales faster
...Let's get to the image as quickly as possible, let's get to the message even faster, and let's find the scale to knock you over the head with the image and the message.
terrible really-great terrific
Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.
dark men scary
I always try so hard to find a male doll and shoot a male doll, and it always kind of implodes. Whenever I use men, they're so scary and so dark, and I can never find this sort of lightness or this place between doll and human that I find with female dolls.
important stopping aspect
I'm very interested in stopping time. And starting time. There is that aspect of time that I'm playing with, that it's elusive and unnoticed yet really in the end the most important thing.
artists hours personal themselves
We don't have real hours and we don't have a boss, so artists create rules for themselves that they then break. It's transgressive in such a personal way.
art attached coming crafty found great stigma ways
When I was in art school, there was a stigma attached to coming from comfortable suburbia. If you were from Great Neck, Long Island, you couldn't be a 'real artist', so I found crafty ways of implying that I was from New York.
ideal operate within
I'm innately conservative, and painting is an ideal place to exercise a progressive conservatism. I operate well within limits.