Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman
Cynthia Morris Sherman (b.1954 New Jersey U.S.A)lives and breathes her art, her photography is of herself. However, these photographs are most definately not self portraits. Sherman challenges her role as a woman in society and raises important and challenging questions through using herself as the ambiguous medium in the modern world.
"Sherman has become best known for her elaborately 'disguised' images, that comment on social role playing and sexual stereotypes. Sherman places herself in the roles of B-movie actresses. Her photographs show her dressed up in wigs, hats, dresses, clothes unlike her own, playing the roles of characters. While many may mistake these photographs for self-portraits, these photographs only play with elements of self-portraiture and are really something quite different. In each of these photographs, Sherman plays a type – not an actual person, but a self-fabricated fictional one. There is the archetypal housewife, the prostitute, the woman in distress, the woman in tears, the dancer, the actress, and the malleable, chameleon-like Sherman plays all of these characters." (Cindy Sherman.com)
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