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| Centerfold Series - 1981. Christie's, 15 May 2013 |
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| Untitled Film Stills - #15, 1978. Guggenheim Museum 1997 |
Photographer, contemporary artist and film director, Cindy Sherman was born January 19, 1954, in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. Ms. Sherman received her education from the State University of New York College at Buffalo (1972-1976). Using makeup, prosthetics, wigs, costumes, and elaborate sets, she is best known for disguising herself in conceptual self-portraits ranging from art history, advertising, cinema and TV that unsettles the roles women play in society. Between 1977 and 1980, her work "Complete Untitled Film Stills," (one of her best-known series of photographs) consisted of a series of 69 black-and-white photographs that challenged media supported cultural stereotypes. In 1995, The Museum of Modern Art purchased this series of still allowing this groundbreaking work to be preserved in it entirety. In the 1980s, Ms. Sherman began using color film and larger prints to convey her artistic views. In 2000, she used the topic of social role-playing and sexual stereotypes in a series of photographs she released that displayed women with exaggerated attributes. Ms. Sherman's photographs call attention to the thin line women walk between artificiality and authenticity as a result of years of culture and society crushing a women's existence in to stereotypes as well as question the role of women in modern society.
By Dorothy DeFrank
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