Cindy Sherman is a photographer and film director. Her conceptual portraits are what she is more wide known for. Sherman takes photographs of herself in different looks. This would be with different clothes, makeup backgrounds and props. With changing her look to suit the photo she try to comment on social issues in society. Her untitled film still series depicts her taking on different looks from old films.
Cindy Sherman, (1981) Untitled Film Still, no. 92, [online]
Available at : http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/visualarts/visualculture/media-slide17.html (Accessed: 30 April 2011)
Cindy Sherman, (1978) Untitled Film Still, no. 21, [online] Available at : http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/visualarts/visualculture/media-slide17.html
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Cindy Sherman, (1980) Untitled Film Still, no. 66, [online] Available at : http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/visualarts/visualculture/media-slide17.html
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Cindy Sherman has also used maniquins to construct her art pieces shown below.
Cindy Sherman, (1992) Untitled 258, [online] Available at :http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/collection/artwork/27198#ixzz1MzqEFY7Q
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Cindy Sherman said in a interview “My ideas are not developed before I actually do the pieces. It's good that you see it in that way.”
Sherman, C. (2000) interviewed by Lichtenstein, T. for the Journal of contemporary art. [online] Available at: http://www.jca-online.com/sherman.html (Accessed: 30 April 2011)
you can see this element in her work as it feels raw and undefined at times as thought she has begun making the art before deciding on what its meaning is going to be or the overall outcome. Her work is very much postmodern in many way as she classes her self as a film directors and photographer but she chose to take on more aspects of her work by being in the photo herself and doing her makeup and taking on other roles that go beyond the role of just a photographer. Again it’s the interpretations of her work that also fall into postmodernism is about the individual reaction to her work. There is this small ground to gage her work in your own interpretations.
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Sherman, C. (2000) interviewed by Lichtenstein, T. for the Journal of contemporary art. [online] Available at: http://www.jca-online.com/sherman.html (Accessed: 30 April 2011)
dipity (2010) dipty. Available at:http://www.dipity.com/timeline/Cindy-Sherman/ (Accessed: 30 April 2011)
Sherman, C. (2011) Cindy Sherman. Available at: http://www.cindysherman.com/biography.shtml
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British Broadcasting Corporation, (2007) Genius of photography. Available at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/photography/genius/gallery/sherman.shtml (Accessed: 30 April 2011)
Cindy Sherman, (1992) Untitled 258, [online] Available at :http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/collection/artwork/27198#ixzz1MzqEFY7Q
(Accessed: 30 April 2011)
(Accessed: 30 April 2011)
Cindy Sherman, (1980) Untitled Film Still, no. 66, [online] Available at : http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/visualarts/visualculture/media-slide17.html
(Accessed: 30 April 2011)
Cindy Sherman, (1978) Untitled Film Still, no. 21, [online] Available at : http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/visualarts/visualculture/media-slide17.html
(Accessed: 30 April 2011)
Cindy Sherman, (1981) Untitled Film Still, no. 92, [online]
Available at : http://www9.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/visualarts/visualculture/media-slide17.html (Accessed: 30 April 2011)
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