Laurie Simmons, Mother/ Nursery, Gelatin silver print, 1976
Artist/Maker:
Laurie Simmons
Bio:
American, b. 1949
Title:
Mother/ Nursery
Portfolio/Series:
Early Black and White
Date:
1976
Medium:
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Sheet: 9 15/16 × 8 1/16 in. (25.2 × 20.5 cm) Image: 7 7/8 × 5 5/16 in. (20 × 13.5 cm)
Credit Line:
Purchase: Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund
Accession Number:
2013-2
Copyright:
© Laurie Simmons

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For this series Simmons created dollhouses in the style of the American suburban home. Photographed in large scale, these surreal evocations of mid-twentieth-century consumerism of the middle class form a highly personal, feminist exploration of women's traditional domestic roles and of the postwar American culture in which the artist was raised.

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