Cindy Sherman
American artist known for photographic self-portraits as imagined characters.
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Cindy Sherman is an American artist known for photographic self-portraits in many different contexts and as various imagined characters.[1] Her artistic output is mainly composed of photographic self-portraits where she appears as a wide variety of imagined characters and in numerous different settings.[1]
Life and work
Sherman's family moved to Huntington, Long Island shortly after her birth.[2] Frustrated with painting's limitations, she abandoned it and took up photography.[3] She dressed herself as different characters using thrift-store clothing, exploring ideas that became hallmarks of her work.[3] Her series Untitled Film Stills (1977–1980) consists of 69 black-and-white photographs and achieved international recognition.[4]
A BA degree was awarded to her in 1976.[5] Sherman's typical method involves creating photographs in series, with herself as the subject wearing various costumes.[6]
What the cited sources add
G. Roger Denson argues that Sherman is more accurately summarized as a director who oversees every aspect of the feature she is starring in, rather than as an actress assuming roles.[7] Denson notes that Sherman had exposure to cinema of the Russian avant-garde, Italian Neorealism, Film Noir, and the French New Wave before creating the Untitled Film Stills.[7] The Art Story account states that Sherman turned to photography to explore a wide range of common female social roles and to question mass-media influence.[8] The Art Story describes Sherman's work as central to the era of intense consumerism and image proliferation at the close of the 20th century.[8]
The Art Story reports that Sherman implied her works were created primarily for a female viewership.[8] A Vogue article notes that Sherman's six-image Balenciaga series was printed in 2008 and depicts figures wearing Balenciaga.[9]
References
- Wikipedia, "Cindy Sherman" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Cindy Sherman", Encyclopædia Britannica (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Cindy Sherman" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Genocchio, Benjamin. "Art Review; Portraits of the Artist as an Actor", The New York Times, April 4, 2004; accessed May 21, 2012. "Ms. Sherman was born in Glen ; Sherman, "Cindy Sherman: The Early Works 1975-1977 : Catalogue Raisonné", Hatje Cantz, 2012 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Cindy Sherman" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Heartney, "After the Revolution Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art", Prestel, 2007, p. 168–171 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Cindy Sherman" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Lance Esplund (February 27, 2012), Cindy Sherman Self-Portraits Offer Empty Entertainment: Review Bloomberg.; "Kunsthaus Bregenz", Kunsthaus-bregenz.at (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Cindy Sherman" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Roberta Smith (February 23, 2012), "Photography's Angel Provocateur – 'Cindy Sherman' at Museum of Modern Art", nytimes.com; accessed March 7, 2015.; Douglas Eklund, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: The Pictures Generation, metmuseum.org; accessed March 7, 2015.; "Cindy Sherman", Hauser & Wirth (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Cindy Sherman" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Metro Pictures", Metropicturesgallery.com (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- G. Roger Denson (March 5, 2012), Cindy Sherman as Orson Welles... as John Ford... as Vittorio De Sica... as Alfred Hitchcock..., Huffington Post; accessed Febru. facts only, no text reused. huffingtonpost.com
- "Cindy Sherman Biography, Art, and Analysis of Works", The Art Story. facts only, no text reused. theartstory.org
- Palmer, "FNO Highlight: Balenciaga Boasts Cindy Sherman and Karen Elson", Vogue. facts only, no text reused. web.archive.org
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