Artist field note

Cindy Sherman

Identity as a role the camera can manufacture.

Untitled #228 by Cindy Sherman
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Untitled #228

1990

Sherman plays Judith with deliberately artificial grandeur. Old Master authority is rebuilt from costume and prosthetic.

The five in one idea

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