Photo gallery: Patty Carroll’s “Anonymous Women” series

Patty Carroll is perhaps best known for her most recent project, “Anonymous Women,” a three-part series of staged photographs created over the past two decades recently published as a 112-page book. These strikingly colorful and lushly staged compositions feature female figures draped in, hiding behind, or camouflaged by lavish fabrics in elaborate settings of Carroll’s own design. As her publisher has noted, Carroll’s images “symbolize the psychological states of women around the world by showing them hidden behind, and intertwined with, visually stunning domestic scenes.” RELATED: Profile of Patty Carroll