Cindy Sherman
(United States of America 1954– )
- Title
- Untitled film still #46
- Other titles:
- MP#46
Untitled film still 1979 - Year
- 1979
- Media category
- Photograph
- Materials used
- gelatin silver photograph
- Edition
- 8/10
- Dimensions
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17.0 x 23.2cm image; 20.3 x 25.3cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated c. verso, ink "Cindy Sherman 1979".
- Credit
- Mervyn Horton Bequest Fund 1986
- Accession number
- 370.1986
- Copyright
- © Courtesy Cindy Sherman and Metro Pictures
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
For Cindy Sherman, photography allowed her to work alone with her ideas and to try on different personae and see how these translated into a flat photographic image. Rather than having a specific political intent, Sherman initially seems to have been more, and quite narcissistically, interested in the effect of changing herself temporarily, knowingly, ironically.
'Even though I have never actively thought of my work as feminist or as a political statement, certainly everything in it is drawn from my observations as a woman in this culture. And a part of that is a love-hate thing - being infatuated with makeup and glamour and detesting it at the same time. It comes from trying to look like a proper young lady or look as sexy or as beautiful as you can make yourself, and also feeling like a prisoner in that structure.' Cindy Sherman 1997
- Bibliography (3)
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Anthony Bond (England; Australia) (Commissioning Editor), Wayne Tunnicliffe (New Zealand; Australia) (Commissioning Editor), Contemporary: Art Gallery of New South Wales Contemporary Collection, 2006, 240 (illus.).
Christie's New York (United States of America) (Author), Christie's New York: Contemporary, New York, 20 May 1999, 97 (illus.). cat.no. 241
Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Author), Great gifts, great patrons: an exhibition celebrating private patronage of the Gallery, Sydney, 1994. no catalogue numbers
- Exhibition history (4)
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Acquisitions from the Komon, Salkauskas and Horton Funds, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 05 May 1987–31 May 1987.
International works from the permanent collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 12 Jan 1991–14 May 1991.
Great gifts, great patrons, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 17 Aug 1994–19 Oct 1994.
Read my Lips, National Gallery of Australia, 06 Jun 1998–09 Aug 1998.
