Untitled
Sherman made this image in the wake of an astonishingly productive five-year run that yielded both her groundbreaking Untitled Film Stills (1977-80)-faked scenes from imaginary movies in which she was actress, director, and cinematographer-and her controversial follow-up series Centerfolds (1981), which was commissioned, and then rejected, by Artforum magazine. Perhaps the increased visibility and public exposure of an artist who specialized in disappearing occasioned this "self-portrait" as Marilyn Monroe out of her sex kitten costume, as Norma Jean Baker.
Artwork Details
- Title: Untitled
- Artist: Cindy Sherman (American, born Glen Ridge, New Jersey, 1954)
- Date: 1982
- Medium: Chromogenic print
- Dimensions: Image: 15 7/16 × 7 1/8 in. (39.2 × 18.1 cm)
Sheet: 20 in. × 15 15/16 in. (50.8 × 40.5 cm) - Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Purchase, Barbara and Eugene Schwartz Gift, 1983
- Object Number: 1983.1101
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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