
Cibachrome print
1984
Laurie Simmons's 'Tourism Pink Stonehenge' is a 1984 Cibachrome print that appropriates and reimagines the famous British monument through the lens of tourism and mass culture. The work plays with color saturation and kitsch aesthetics.
- Medium
- Tourism Pink Stonehenge
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
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December 12, 2019
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Martin Parr
British · b. 1952

Martin Parr photographs tourist culture and mass consumption with vivid color saturation and a sharp wit that closely mirrors Simmons's critique of tourism and kitsch aesthetics in this Stonehenge piece. His work similarly appropriates iconic landmarks and consumer culture through a postmodern photographic lens.

Cindy Sherman
American · b. 1954

Cindy Sherman shares Simmons's conceptual photographic practice rooted in appropriation, pop culture imagery, and constructed artifice that critiques media and mass representation. Both artists use photography in the 1980s to interrogate familiar cultural imagery through staged and manipulated visual strategies.

Barbara Kruger
American · b. 1945

Barbara Kruger works within the same postmodern American tradition as Simmons, using bold visual appropriation and conceptual strategies to critique consumer culture and mass media during the same 1980s period. Her work shares the same satirical engagement with popular cultural symbols and dominant ideological imagery.
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