File:Laurie Simmons Tourism Parthenon 1984.jpg

Photographic image by Laurie Simmons, Tourism: Parthenon (1984). The image illustrates a key body of work by artist Laurie Simmons beginning in the early 1980s when she produced staged monochromatic tableaux using Japanese dolls and rear-projected imagery of like-hued rooms or postcard slides of famed tourist sites, as in this work from her "Tourism" series. The images explore elements of longing and fantasy associated with advertising, fashion, film consumerism and travel, in this case. questioning the artificially contrived slickness of tourist images and the possibility of unprogrammed, unmediated experience. This work and body of work has been publicly exhibited in prominent exhibitions, presented a major venues, and discussed in major art journals and daily press publications.

Artist Laurie Simmons. Copyright held by the artist.

Laurie Simmons

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The image has contextual significance in that it serves an informational and educational purpose as the primary means of illustrating a key early body of work in Laurie Simmons's career in the 1980s: her large-format image series in which she set monochrome Japanese dolls against rear-projected, like-hued rooms or postcard slides of famed tourist sites that seemed to subsume them. Like her other work, these series explored psycho-social subtexts involving gender, social convention, identity and cultural aspiration, as well as media saturation. Because the article is about an artist and her work, the omission of the image would significantly limit a reader's ability to understand this foundational body of work, which brought Simmons continued recognition through public exhibitions, coverage by major critics and publications. Simmons's work of this type and this work itself is discussed in the article and by critics cited in the article.

There is no free equivalent of this or any other of this series by Laurie Simmons, so the image cannot be replaced by a free image.

The image will not affect the value of the original work or limit the copyright holder's rights or ability to distribute the original due to its low resolution and the general workings of the art market, which values the actual work of art. Because of the low resolution, illegal copies could not be made.