cindy sherman
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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