08/22/2026
📷 Today is World Photography Day! Celebrate with a visit to our fourth floor to see Laurie Simmons’ “Walking House.”
🏠In Laurie Simmons’s photographs, houses walk, and so do pastries, handbags, and a host of other objects. People’s possessions take on agency.
“The idea of an object with legs that could dance or move was always very intriguing to me,” said Laurie Simmons of her 1989 photograph. “It was very important to make this series human scale,” she went on, so that viewers could ”experience what one might feel like if we morphed with the objects around us.”
The pictures in her Walking Objects series of the late 1980s ironically endow commercial objects with human personalities by giving them legs and presenting them at a human scale — this print is almost seven feet tall. In Walking House, the sleek legs of a young starlet or model support a toy suburban house of the sort the young woman might have grown up in and in which—after marriage—she is destined to live.
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Laurie Simmons. “Walking House.” 1989. Richard E. and Christie Salomon Fund and The Family of Man Fund. © 2026 Laurie Simmons.
