Hello ! Today, I will talk about Cindy Sherman, a famous photographer.
Cindy Sherman is an American photographer and film director of "Office Killer", who was born on the 19th January in 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. She is well known for her conceptual portraits.
She became interested in the visual arts at Buffalo State College, where she began painting. Then she abandoned her painting study and took up photography. She spent the rest of her college career focused on photography. It's at Buffalo State College that she met Robert Longo and they created together Hallwalls, an arts centre.
Her photographic career.
Sherman works in series, typically photographing herself in a range of costumes. For example a series, dated 2003, features her as clowns. Although Sherman doesn't consider her work feminist, many of her photo-series call attention to the stereotyping of women in films, television and magazines.
Sherman produced the Sex series in 1989. She used bare models for this work. Like much of her work, many critics find the series both disturbing and funny.
In 1990 she explained to the New York Times : "I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear." It's very strange because she is both hidden and revealed.
In 2006, The Jeu de Paume museum in Paris hosted an exhibition of Sherman's works, “Cindy Sherman: A Retrospective.” It included works spanning 30 years from 1975 to 2005.
Cindy Sherman did a lot of type of photography : fashion photograph, historical portrait, soft-core sex image...
Cindy Sherman is an American photographer and film director of "Office Killer", who was born on the 19th January in 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. She is well known for her conceptual portraits.
She became interested in the visual arts at Buffalo State College, where she began painting. Then she abandoned her painting study and took up photography. She spent the rest of her college career focused on photography. It's at Buffalo State College that she met Robert Longo and they created together Hallwalls, an arts centre.
Her photographic career.
Sherman works in series, typically photographing herself in a range of costumes. For example a series, dated 2003, features her as clowns. Although Sherman doesn't consider her work feminist, many of her photo-series call attention to the stereotyping of women in films, television and magazines.
Sherman produced the Sex series in 1989. She used bare models for this work. Like much of her work, many critics find the series both disturbing and funny.
In 1990 she explained to the New York Times : "I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear." It's very strange because she is both hidden and revealed.
In 2006, The Jeu de Paume museum in Paris hosted an exhibition of Sherman's works, “Cindy Sherman: A Retrospective.” It included works spanning 30 years from 1975 to 2005.
Cindy Sherman did a lot of type of photography : fashion photograph, historical portrait, soft-core sex image...
I think she is a very good photographer and I love her personnality. She is provocating, her photos show the society and although she says that she is not feminist, she always show us the place of women and she caricatures them.
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