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Art by Cindy Sherman, #145, 1985
| Content Provider | Art Institute of Chicago |
|---|---|
| Artist | Cindy Sherman |
| Spatial Coverage | United States |
| Temporal Coverage | 1985 |
| Description | Cindy Sherman's staged photographs explore the pervasive effects of mass-media images on individual identities. Since the late 1970s, the artist has served as both photographer and model for a large cast of fictional personalities created primarily through costume, hair, makeup, and lighting. In 1985, after receiving an invitation from Vanity Fair to contribute photographs based on fairy tales, Sherman began making disturbing, gruesome images, such as Untitled #145, that counter the happily-ever-after bedtime stories associated with the genre. Instead, she captured narratives filled with anxiety and implied violence, explaining, “In horror stories or in fairy tales, the fascination with the morbid is also, at least for me, a way to prepare for the unthinkable. . . . That's why it's very important for me to show the artificiality of it all.” [Photo of a a blond person lying in gravel. They look to left of the viewer with slightly closed eyelids and a bloodlike liquid visible in their mouth.] |
| File Format | JPG / JPEG |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights Holder | © Cindy Sherman Courtesy Metro Pictures, New York |
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| Use Rights URL | https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ |
| Subject Keyword | Women Modern And Contemporary Art Photography Artworks Contemporary Art |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Photograph |
| Object Type | Photographs |
