Artist field note

Cindy Sherman

Identity as a role the camera can manufacture.

Untitled #153 by Cindy Sherman
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Untitled #153

1985

The staged body looks like evidence from a crime scene. Beauty photography is pushed into abjection.

The five in one idea

Sherman made photography expose the roles through which femininity, glamour and art history are constructed.