Untitled Film Still, No. 6.
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Title |
Untitled Film Still, No. 6. |
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Creator |
Sherman, Cindy (American photographer, born 1954) |
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Date |
1977 |
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Cultural Context |
American
North American |
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Style/Period |
Contemporary
Postmodern |
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Subject |
Film stills
Feminism
Women
Artists
Photographers
Costumes
Fictitious characters
Daydreaming
Posing
Leisure
Robes
Lingerie
Underwear
Mirrors
Bedsheets |
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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) |
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People Pictured |
Sherman, Cindy |
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Measurements |
25.4 x 20.3 cm |
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Technique |
Black-and-white photography
Photography
Photographic processes
Photographic techniques |
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Work Type |
Photographs
Film stills
Body art |
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Source |
Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.201, fig.101). |
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Rights |
Reproduced in Hopkins courtesy of the artist/Metro Pictures, New York. |
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Digital Publisher |
University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center |
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Format |
image/jpeg |
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Digital File Name |
VRC 459-22.jpg |
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Rating |
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