Main entry:

Simmons, Laurie.

Title & Author:

Laurie Simmons : in and around the house, photographs, 1976-78 / texts by Carol Squiers and Laurie Simmons.

Publication:

New York : Carolina Nitsch Editions, 2003.

Description:

95 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 25 x 30 cm

Notes:
Features 57 full-page photographs and two texts: "The Mnemonic Image," by Carol Squiers, a leading voice on photography and the curator at the International Center of Photography in New York; and an autobiographical account by Laurie Simmons.
Includes bibliographical references.
The Mnemonic Image: Essay / Carol Squiers -- In and Around the House / Laurie Simmons -- In and Around the House: Photographs 1976-78 / Laurie Simmons.

Summary:

A seminal book by one of the first artists of the Pictures generation to use set-up photography to create images with intensely psychological subtexts. it features the first comprehensive survey of Simmons' early black-and-white photographs, the importance of which Carol Squiers describes in her essay: "What Simmons did with domestic subjects was unique ... Her use and manipulation of miniaturized dolls, objects, and interiors gave the photographs the abstracted quality of a dream, which was markedly different from the cool ... images of other artists. By using objects that so clearly evoked childhood, she was also more directly referencing personal memory." This previously unpublished early work put Laurie Simmons on the forefront of a new generation of artists, predominantly women, whose use of the media as subject began a new dialogue on contemporary art. In Simmons' own words, "Re-examining the pictures, I became aware of a potential narrative and structure that hadn't been obvious to me during the years that I was shooting. I actually began to see a house with many rooms, as well as indoor and outdoor space. I also began to think about a female presence, both real and implied, and to formally locate a space that didn't exist in my mind originally when I was exploring the territory with my camera. The project that you see here took shape when hundreds of long-forgotten images were revisited with the notion of creating a home within In and Around the House."--Back cover inset.

ISBN:

0974066605
9780974066608
3775713522
9783775713528

Subject:

Simmons, Laurie Exhibitions.
Simmons, Laurie
Art, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
Women in art.
Photography, Artistic.
Art 20e siècle Expositions.
Femmes dans l'art.
Photographie artistique.
art photography.
Art, Modern
Artistic photography.

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Squiers, Carol, 1948-

In and around the house, photographs, 1976-78

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 238065
Call No.: BIB 167919
Status: Available