Photographer Appreciation
Laurie Simmons is best recognized for her feminist contributions in photography and film during the post-war United States.
Born on October 3, 1949, her work was heavily influenced raised in a Jewish suburb in Queens, New York. Women roles in her photographs were portrayed using dolls in dollhouses such as a housewife doll in the kitchen--a photo collection shot in 1976. Other inanimate objects placed in themed settings followed including Kaleidoscope House, and The Love Doll.
In 2006, Simmons' first film, The Music of Regret, featured Academy Award winner Meryl Streep and a lot of her subjects captured in photographs.
She is part of a group of prominent artists known as The Pictures Generation, an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) in 2009.
The Love Doll via whitney.org
Kaleidoscope House via modernminihouses
Sources:
Wikipedia
https://www.theartstory.org/artist/simmons-laurie/
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/about/feminist_art_base/laurie-simmons
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