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
past thinking ideas
I think of scientific veracity as an idea from the past - the scientists say it is so, the photo is proof. Even the authoritative power of the word actual - an actual what? An actual retouched photo, an actual collaged photo?
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.
lying believe people
People are much more willing nowadays to believe that pictures lie than [that] they can express any kind of truth.
terrible really-great terrific
Any work that is really great hovers between terrific and terrible.
mean kids reality
I realized early on that artifice attracted me to an image more than any other quality - I mean artifice in the sense of staging and heightened color and exaggerated lighting, not a surreal or fictive moment... I think the lighting and feeling of Cinemascope, the movies I saw as a kid, always stayed with me as a kind of glorious vision of reality.