Laurie Simmons: Big Camera/Little Camera

$29.98 at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Accompanying a major survey of the work of the American artist Laurie Simmons, this generously illustrated book by Andrea Karnes features every important step of her ever-evolving career—from small black-and-white photographs of miniature furniture to large-scale, full color images featuring life-sized Japanese dolls.Gender roles and identity, reality and its distortion, and the psychologically loaded myth of “normal life” are recurrent themes in Laurie Simmons’s work. Taken chronologically, her career has…