PAUL BERNSTEIN | DATE 1/17/2013

Laurie Simmons Launches 'The Love Doll' at Dashwood Books

Friends, fans and family of Laurie Simmons gathered this Wednesday evening at Dashwood Books in SoHo for the signing and launch of Simmons' new book, The Love Doll, published by Baldwin Gallery / Salon 94 Gallery / Tomio Koyama Gallery / Wilkinson Gallery. Notable guests, including Glenn O’Brien, Bill Powers, Anne Christenson, Jeanne Greenberg-Rohatyn, Lisa Phillips, Ari Marcopoulos and Simmons’ daughter, the recent Golden Globe winner Lena Dunham, were in attendance to celebrate the book, which collects Simmons' photographs of one, then two, life size surrogate sex dolls from Japan.

Laurie Simmons and Girls star, Lena Dunham.

Fashion editor Anne Christensen with the Half Gallery's Bill Powers.

Salon 94's Fabienne Stephan and New Museum Director Lisa Phillips.

Photographer Ari Marcopoulos and editor Glenn O'Brien.

Publisher and financier Gregory Miller.

Designer Ricky Clifton and Simmons.

New York magazine critic Jerry Saltz with Love Doll co-publisher and Salon 94 principal Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn.