14 Facts About Laurie Simmons

Laurie Simmons was born on October 3,1949 and is an American artist, photographer and filmmaker.

Since the mid-1970s, Simmons has staged scenes for her camera with dolls, ventriloquist dummies, objects on legs, and people, to create photographs that reference domestic scenes.

Laurie Simmons is part of The Pictures Generation, a name given to a group of artists who came to prominence in the 1970s.

Laurie Simmons's parents were both Jewish and she was raised in a Jewish community.

Laurie Simmons received a BFA from Tyler School of Art in 1971.

In 2006, Laurie Simmons made her first film, The Music of Regret.

Laurie Simmons starred in a feature-length film by her daughter Lena Dunham, called Tiny Furniture, which was filmed in 2009 and was featured at the South by Southwest film festival in 2010.

In 2008, Laurie Simmons collaborated with the designer Thakoon Panichgul to create fabrics for his Spring 2009 line.

Laurie Simmons collaborated with Peter Jensen on his 2010 spring collection.

Jensen photographed models in poses directed by Laurie Simmons based on images from fashion magazines in the '60s and '70s.

In 1972, Laurie Simmons discovered a vintage dollhouse in the attic of a toy store in Liberty, New York.

Laurie Simmons was drawn to the strange, strongly gendered appeal of dolls and dollhouses and began photographing them.

Laurie Simmons made a guest appearance on Gossip Girl in 2011 to make a portrait of the van der Woodsen family in a style that resembled her Interior Decorator series from 2001.

Brooklyn-based performance collective, Carroll Laurie Simmons, takes their name from combining Laurie Simmons' last name with her husband, Carroll Dunham's first.