Artist field note

Cindy Sherman

Identity as a role the camera can manufacture.

Untitled Film Still #35 by Cindy Sherman
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Untitled Film Still #35

1979

Costume, angle and expression produce a woman who exists only for the photograph - and still feels culturally familiar.

The five in one idea

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