Cindy Sherman is an American conceptual Photographer and also a film director. She was born in 1954, New Jersey, and is mostly known for her portraiture photography.
She creates and photographs sets in which she appears as various characters. She does this in order to borrow from certain particularities of stereotypical images of women in popular media, which makes audiences recognise the original stereotypical image. She also titles each image as 'Untitled' to depersonalise the images as she wants people to see the meaning and the character in the image rather than the photographer taking a self portrait. Sherman likes to use herself to comment on a variety of issues such as;
- The role of women
- The role of the artist
Extract from the book Her Bodies
Rossalind Krauss- '..the condition of being a copy without being an original.'.
Some of her work
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