#cindysherman

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American artist Cindy Sherman (1954 - ) has long been challenging people’s perceptions of women and the construction of identity by playing various female roles in her photographic work. Sherman created her Untitled Film Stills (1977–80) series when she was just 23 years old, playing many female characters such as the jaded seductress, the unhappy housewife, and the jilted lover. Our favorite, of course, is Sherman as a student (or librarian?) in the book stacks.

Throughout her career, Sherman has continued to transform herself, displaying the diversity of human types and stereotypes in her images of older women, society portraits, and historical figures, such as the Virgin Mary.

Image 1: Black and white photograph of Cindy Sherman

Image 2: Untitled Film Still #13, 1978, Gelatin silver print, 24 x 19.1cm

1. Cindy Sherman in her studio, New York, 2007

SHERMAN, CINDY (Estados Unidos, 1954)

Esta artista se dedica sobretodo al trabajo audiovisual y la fotografía. Destaca su fotografía de postguerra. 

A pesar de que en la mayoría de sus fotografías aparece ella misma, no las considera autorretratos. Sherman se utiliza a sí misma como vehículo para representar una gran variedad de temas del mundo contemporáneo, como el papel de la mujer o el papel del artista. A través de una serie de diferentes obras, Sherman ha planteado difíciles e importantes preguntas sobre el papel y la representación de las mujeres en la sociedad, los medios de comunicación y la naturaleza de la creación del arte.