Laurie Simmons (b. 1949) is an American artist, photographer and filmmaker who lives and works in New York City. Since the mid-1970s, Simmons has staged scenes for her camera with dolls, ventriloquist dummies, and common objects perched on human legs, to create photographs that reference domestic scenes.

Her more recent work uses life-size sex dolls that appear to be engaged in surprisingly believable activities. Endowing dolls, puppets, and ventriloquist dummies with a very human sense of longing and loneliness, Simmons creates psychologically astute critiques of women’s roles in their myriad incarnations from housewife to sex object.

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