TEDx Met: Icons -- Lorna Simpson October 19, 2013 Lorna Simpson first became well known in the mid-1980s for her large-scale photograph-and-text works that confront and challenge conventional views of gender, identity, culture, history, and memory.

Old sports photographs and hair commercials provide inspiration for American artist Lorna Simpson. The artist uses combinations of image and text to examine the processes through which meaning and understanding take place. Here Simpson shows us how she arrived at this methodology and why her surroundings are so important to her work.

Lorna Simpson talks to Frieze about her life and work in her Brooklyn studio. Simpson came to prominence in the 1980s through her pioneering approach to conceptual photography, which featured striking juxtapositions of text and staged images and raised questions about the nature of representation, identity, gender, race and history.