data gaps

William Hamilton - new yorker

Cindy Sherman - Untitled #465, 2008 [***]

Cindy Sherman - Untitled #299, 1994 [***]

Jeannette Montgomery Barron - Cindy Sherman, NYC, 1986 [***]

jarrive:

Cindy Sherman. Untitled Film Still #15. 1978.

Skarstedt Gallery +

Cindy Sherman. (American, born 1954). Untitled Film Still #36. 1979. [***]

Cindy Sherman / Self Portrait, 1988 [***]

Cindy Sherman / portrait by Abe Frajndlich / New York City / 1987 [***] / [***]

Cindy Sherman / Untitled Film Still

“Sherman made 69 film stills in the series [Untitled Film Stills] and said that she stopped making them in 1980 when she ran out of clichés. 69 seems an arbitrary number; she could have surely come up with a few more, yet how many would a man have made?” [***]

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“For her the pop-culture image was not a subject (as it had been for Walker Evans) or raw material (as it had been for Andy Warhol) but a whole artistic vocabulary, ready-made. Her film stills look and function just like the real ones—those 8-by-10-inch glossies designed to lure us into a drama we find all the more compelling because we know it is not real.[…] In the Untitled Film Stills there are no Cleopatras, no ladies on trains, no women of a certain age. There are, of course, no men. The sixty-nine solitary heroines map a particular constellation of fictional femininity that took hold in postwar America—the period of Sherman’s youth […] This exhibition is sponsored by Madonna. ” [MoMA]

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Cindy Sherman / Untitled Film Still #65 / 1980

“Sherman works in series, typically photographing herself in a range of costumes. For example, in her landmark 69 photograph series, the Complete Untitled Film Stills, (1977-1980) Sherman appeared as B-movie, foreign film and film noir style actresses.” [***]