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Untitled Film Still, No. 6.
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Title
Untitled
Film
Still
,
No
.
6
.
Creator
Sherman, Cindy (American photographer, born 1954)
Date
1977
Cultural Context
American
North American
Style/Period
Contemporary
Postmodern
Theme
Photographs
Black-and-white photographs
Series (groups)
Film stills
B-movies
Motion pictures (visual works)
Feature films
Popular culture
Feminism
Symbolism (artistic concept)
Symbols
Imagery
Body art
Women
Artists
Photographers
Actors
Acting
Costumes (character dress)
Figurative art
Figures (representations)
Overhead views
Front views
Gesture
Leisure
Costume (mode of fashion)
Robes (main garments)
Underwear
Panties (underpants)
Brassieres
Mirrors
Hand mirrors
Bed coverings
Subject
Photographs
Film stills
Motion pictures
Feminism
Symbols
Women
Artists
Photographers
Actors
Costumes
Fictitious characters
Daydreaming
Posing
Gestures
Leisure
Clothing & dress
Robes
Lingerie
Underwear
Mirrors
Bedsheets
Description
Edition
of
10
. "
Sherman
poses
as a
woman
daydreaming
. She
holds
a
mirror
, a
clichéd
symbol
of
vanity
, in
one
hand
.
Momentarily
her
blank
stare
triggers
a
disturbing
'double-take'
. She
becomes
a
victim
of
crime
in a
police
photograph
,
'killed'
by the
voyeuristic
,
mechanical
gaze
of the
camera.
"
(Caption
,
p
.
201)
; "The
American
artist
Cindy
Sherman
,
earlier
described
as
'post-modern'
,
is
relevant
here.
Emerging
in
New
York
in the
late
1970s
with
Pop
,
Conceptualism
, and
Body
Art
as her
expressive
resources
, her
first
important
works
, a
sequence
of
69
Untitled
Film
Stills
, were
produced
between
1977
and
1980
.
Ideally
they should be
seen
en
masse
since
she
appears
in
all
of them,
threading
her
persona
through
codes
of
clothing
,
lighting
,
setting
, and
composition
filched
from
1950s
American
B-movies
.
Appearing
as a
film-star
lookalike
, a
flirtatious
college
student
, a
defiant
housewife
, she
tips
her
hat
to
feminist
debates
,
establishing
femininity
as a
'construct'
rather
than
something
'innate'.
"
(Excerpt
,
p
.
200)
People Pictured
Sherman, Cindy
Measurements
25.4 x 20.3 cm
Technique
Black-and-white photography
Photography
Photographic processes
Photographic techniques
Work Type
Photographs
Body art
Source
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.201, fig.101).
Rights
Reproduced in Hopkins courtesy of the artist/Metro Pictures, New York.
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format
image/jpeg
Digital File Name
VRC
459-22.jpg
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