Cindy Sherman

Untitled Film Stills

Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills is a series of 70 black-and-white photographs of self-portraits, depicting the artist as characters from imagined 1950s-60s Hollywood B-movies. Sherman dresses up and poses as the women stereotypes of a noir film starlet, a worn-out housewife, an innocent schoolgirl, a femme fatale, a diva, a career woman, or an ice cold intellectual.

She is both the actress and director, who deconstructs and re-contextualizes the iconographized myth of femininity in mass media. Her ambiguous and mysterious images create vague familiarity that allows the viewer to interpret the meanings in a variety of personal ways through Sherman’s many-faceted, performative, parodic and feminist identities.