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Laurie Simmons: Walking, Talking, Lying

Door Kate Linker

Categorie
Fotografie (Kunst)
Boeknummer
#329741-AD23
Titel
Laurie Simmons: Walking, Talking, Lying
Auteur
Linker, Kate (text)
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij
New York : Aperture Foundation
Jaar van uitgave
2005
ISBN10
1931788596
ISBN13
9781931788595
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original red cloth with mounted plate, decorated endpapers, copiously illustrated with colour photographs, 4to.
Samenvatting

The intimate ache of the dollhouse and its air of manipulation (whether as consumer object or ventriloquist dummy) has become as identified with pioneering photographer Laurie Simmons as with Ibsen. She's even designed a dollhouse for a toy company. Mostly self-taught, Simmons began working in the 1970s, when color and staged tableaux were first being explored by fine-art photographers, and has since mapped out a world all her own, mostly in haunting miniature. Over the past 25 years, her photographs have conveyed a bittersweet nostalgia for the 1950s, while edgily commenting on consumerism, feminism and other fraught aspects of postwar American culture. The accompanying essay by Kate Linker concentrates on selected series that cover the artist's entire oeuvre--from "Ventriloquism,&
... (Lees verder)quot; "Walking Objects" and "Lying Objects" to the 1997 "Self-Portraits" and "Cafe of the Inner Mind"--and so is essential reading for any photography aficionado.
Pagina's
155
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 12,50

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