TY - BOOK AU - Linker,Kate TI - Laurie Simmons: walking, talking, lying SN - 1931788596 (hbk.) AV - TR655 .S57 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - New York, London PB - Aperture, D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers [distributor], Thames & Hudson [distributor] KW - Simmons, Laurie KW - Photographers KW - United States KW - Photography, Artistic N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-153) and index N2 - Laurie Simmons. a contemporary American photographer, creates elaborately staged narrative photographs. She comments on popular culture by using dolls in specially constructed enviornments. Populated by housewives, ventriloquists' dummies, and familiar objects in unfamiliar guises, her diverse tableaux are often infused with bittersweet nostalgia yet charged with a diquieting sense of dislocation ER -