Talking Handkerchief, 1987

Laurie Simmons is one of the first contemporary American photographers to have created elaborately staged narrative photography. 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 1950s that I knew was both beautiful and lethal." Prodigiously creative, she has produced fourteen fully developed series since the 1970s.

Archival Watercolor Paper
Image Size: 6 7/8 x 5 1/16 inches
Paper Size: 14 1/16 x 11 1/16 inches
Edition of 50 + 1 AP
Signed and numbered by the artist

Laurie Simmons (b. 1949, Far Rockaway, New York) earned a BFA from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia. Her photographs have appeared in group and solo shows throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia, and she is represented in numerous private and public collections, from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, to Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and Hara Museum, Tokyo. Her books include In and Around the House, Photographs 1976–1978 (2003) and Laurie Simmons: Walking, Talking, Lying (2005). Simmons lives and works in Manhattan. She is represented by Sperone Westwater, New York.