PHOTOS: Cindy Sherman, Imitation of Life
A new museum exhibition spans the length of influential photographer, Cindy Sherman's expansive career.
Cindy Sherman is a contemporary art chameleon. Her decades-long practice of creating intricate self-portraits examining societal gender roles with both serious and satirical takeaways, Sherman is revered as one of the most influencial contemporary photographers today and hailed as a feminist pioneer. In her breakout series Untitled Film Stills, she explored women’s roles in Western films in the ’50s and ’60s. From there, she re-created scenes one would find in European paintings in the 16th century, exaggerating the women's sexuality with prosthetic parts. Later, Sherman made caricatures of everything from aristocrats to literal clowns.
Los Angeles museum The Broad is showcasing a collection that spans the length of Cindy Sherman’s career to date, and will be open to the public through Oct. 2. The museum's collection is also available through the book Cindy Sherman: Imitation of Life.
Here, one of her earlier works from the film still collection: Untitled Film Still #58, 1980
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Untitled Film Still #06, 1977
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Untitled Film Still #07, 1978
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Untitled #92, 1981
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Untitled #122, 1983
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Untitled #193, 1989
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Untitled #353, 2000
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Untitled #447, 2005
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Untitled #512, 2010/2011
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Untitled, #571, 2016
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Untitled #574 2016
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