Artist field note

Cindy Sherman

Identity as a role the camera can manufacture.

Untitled #96 by Cindy Sherman
photographer.ru · See source for rightsSource ↗

03 / 05

Untitled #96

1981

A young woman lies on the floor clutching a personal ad. Innocence and self-invention become impossible to separate.

The five in one idea

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