Netflix Movies Starring Laurie Simmons
Laurie Simmons was born in Long Island, New York. She received a B.F.A. from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University in Philadelphia in 1971 and later moved to New York where she lives. Since the mid 1970s, Simmons has staged scenes for her camera with dolls, ventriloquist dummies, objects on legs and occasionally people, to create "images with intensely psychological subtexts". Simmons' first mature works, shot in 1976, were black and white images taken in a doll house, un-peopled variations on each room in the house, particularly the bathroom, using sunlight and different angles to create a "dazzling, dreamlike stage set". She then added a housewife doll into a kitchen set, and "...photographed the figure over and over in various positions--standing and sitting at the table, at the counter, in a corner, standing on her head with the kitchen in disarray. Read more on iMDB