File:Laurie Simmons Lena (Pink) 2018.jpg

Photographic image by Laurie Simmons, Some New: Lena (Pink) (Pigment print, 2018). The image illustrates a later body of work by artist Laurie Simmons beginning in the later 2010s after she turned her focus toward moved toward human subjects, artifice, and themes of public and private including social media practices involving identity. This image represents her "Some New" portraits, which depicted friends and family in states of change, renewal or guise, adorned in only body-paint that realistically simulated clothing yet left them somewhat exposed. 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 later body of work in Laurie Simmons's career: her photographic series of the 2000s, which moved toward human subjects and greater emotional starkness, extending recurrent themes of dolls, artifice, public and private to include social media practices of constructing, disseminating and obscuring images of the self. In the later series, she made a transition to human models, influenced among other things by kigurumi a Japanese costume play, and used visual contrivances such as trompe l'oeil illusions and painted costumes. 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 later body and mode of work, which brought Simmons ongoing recognition through public exhibitions, coverage by major critics and publications, and museum acquisitions. 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.