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The struggle for personal identity in a media-saturated culture assumes absurd anthropomorphic proportions in this work by Laurie Simmons. Using her friend, photographer Jimmy DeSana, as a model, Simmons fashions a creature that is half-human, half-machine, capturing him with her shutter against a seamless studio backdrop as he tips awkwardly forward. The strong, directional lighting and grainy appearance of the photograph suggest a film still. The imagery derives from 1950s television advertising, which often featured life-size dancing cigarette cartons, matchbooks, and the like. . . .
- April Watson, Curatorial and Exhibition Assistant in the Department of Photographs Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, which is available for purchase in the Corcoran Shop. :: Click here to purchase this catalog online :: View more Photography and Media Arts
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