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Cindy Sherman’s *Untitled Film Stills*, a series of black-and-white photographs taken between 1977 and 1980, is now considered one of the most original and influential works in the recent history of photography. Witty, provocative, and exploratory, this animated catalog of female roles inspired by film characters strikes a vital chord in our culture; this is the first time the entire series has been published as a unified body of work. On a grand scale, Sherman experimented with other characters in different roles: the chic starlet in her seaside hideaway, the voluptuous librarian, the domestic sex kitten, or the passionate woman of the people. She finally completed the series in 1980. For her, pop-culture imagery was not a subject or raw material but an entire artistic vocabulary, ready for use. The 69 solitary heroines thus represent a unique constellation of fictional femininity that took root in postwar America—the period of Sherman’s youth and the starting point of our contemporary mythology.
Exhibition Catalog " Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills ”, held from June 26, 1997, to September 2, 1997, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Published by MoMA, 2003
24.7 cm 27.4 cm, 164 pages, in good condition
ISBN
Cindy Sherman’s *Untitled Film Stills*, a series of black-and-white photographs taken between 1977 and 1980, is now considered one of the most original and influential works in the recent history of photography. Witty, provocative, and exploratory, this animated catalog of female roles inspired by film characters strikes a vital chord in our culture; this is the first time the entire series has been published as a unified body of work. On a grand scale, Sherman experimented with other characters in different roles: the chic starlet in her seaside hideaway, the voluptuous librarian, the domestic sex kitten, or the passionate woman of the people. She finally completed the series in 1980. For her, pop-culture imagery was not a subject or raw material but an entire artistic vocabulary, ready for use. The 69 solitary heroines thus represent a unique constellation of fictional femininity that took root in postwar America—the period of Sherman’s youth and the starting point of our contemporary mythology.
Exhibition Catalog " Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills ”, held from June 26, 1997, to September 2, 1997, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Published by MoMA, 2003
24.7 cm 27.4 cm, 164 pages, in good condition
ISBN
