In "Untitled (Self Portrait with Sun Tan)", Cindy Sherman is overtly taking on issues of class, image, and beauty of the excess. Covered in over-the-top bronzer, she dramatically changes the contours ...
Image: 15.5 x 9 in. (39.37 x 22.86 cm.) "Untitled (As Marilyn Monroe)" from 1982 shows Sherman channeling the iconic Marilyn Monroe. Through meticulous preparations, the artist becomes virtually ...
American photographer and filmmaker Cindy Sherman, recognized for her wide-ranging conceptual self-portraits, is considered one of the most influential contemporary artists working today. An ...
In the words of Oscar Wilde… “Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” Give Cindy Sherman some makeup, costumes, a camera and lights and ...
From a distance, the artist Cindy Sherman could never be mistaken for a recluse, if only for how willing she has been to share her face with us over the years: You ...
Walking through the slushy New York streets over the last week, a bit of sandwich-board wisdom struck me as wise: “I went to Los Angeles to Find Myself. I came to New York City to Be Someone.” In a ...
What this BBC Arena film opens up, alongside that bold claim, is a question about the mystery of Sherman as a person: who is she and why has she done what she’s done? Always reclusive, refusing public ...
Standing in a room full of Cindy Sherman‘s photographs is disconcerting—there might be a portrait of a Hollywood glam starlet, a stately matriarch staring straight down the camera lens, and a woman ...
“Untitled #87,” by Cindy Sherman (American, born 1954), 1981, chromogenic print. Image: 59.2 x 122.5cm (23 5/16 x 48 1/4in.); Frame: 78.7 x 139.7 cm (31 x 55 in.). This photograph is part of the ...
For a woman whose career has been built on self-portraits, Cindy Sherman is barely recognizable. In the flesh, the MacArthur Fellowship–winning photographer looks too friendly, too nice to be the same ...
The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...