Cindy Sherman

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Transcript of Cindy Sherman

American born in 1954

“Everyone thinks these are self-portraits but they aren't meant to be. I just use myself as a model because I know I can push myself to extremes, make each shot as ugly or goofy or silly as possible.”

Film Stills

1977-1980,

This series makes commentary to how women are portrayed in the cinema.

History Portraits

Which Renaissance painting was I modeled

after?

Judith Holding Holofernes' Head

by Botticelli

What about me?

Portrait of Giovanna

Tornabuoni by Ghirlandaio

And me?

I’m Bacchus by Caravaggio!

And who do I look like?

A Vigee-Lebrun portrait!

Rich Women