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Laurie Simmons American
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The radical restaging of fine-art photography from a real-life or fact-based medium to one that equally embraced its inherent fictional qualities is precisely what Laurie Simmons and her peers—the first of the newly branded postmodern artists—would achieve in less than a decade of work beginning around 1980. This rare early photograph by Simmons features at least four women clothed in bubbles, including Cindy Sherman. Though clearly directed by Simmons, they swim freely and frolic in the "sea" like brightly colored tropical fish in an aquarium.
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