Project 2 – Mirroring, Homage, and Imitation:

About Cindy Sherman (research)
-she is the youngest of five children
-both parents were not involve with art
-Dali and Picasso
-gave up painting


Her photographs show her dressed up in wigs, hats, dresses, clothes unlike her own, playing the roles of characters.

There is the archetypal housewife, the prostitute, the woman in distress, the woman in tears, the dancer, the actress, and the malleable, chameleon-like Sherman plays all of these characters.

At times, Sherman employs dolls parts or prosthetic body parts to substitute for her own and many a scene is strewn with vomit, mold and other vile substances.

She has been married to video artist Michel Auder for over 16 years and has found time in her busy career to add work in motion pictures

In 1999 the average selling price for one of her photographs was $20,000 to $50,000, a hefty sum for a female photographer.

These women are again simply types - The Personal Trainer, The Ex-Realtor, The Divorcee, etc. Sherman further manipulates the notion of portraiture through the use of conventional portrait signs including the setting of the figure against a neutral background.

http://www.cindysherman.com/biography.shtml

http://www.jca-online.com/sherman.html

http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/photography/cindysherman153.html

http://nymag.com/anniversary/40th/culture/45773/

http://www.masters-of-photography.com/S/sherman/sherman.html