US EditionCindy Sherman, the Woman with a Thousand Faces: “I Didn’t Take Pictures to Show Myself, but to Disappear”
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Her face has been all and none. American Cindy Sherman (Glen Ridge, New Jersey, 71) not only transformed contemporary photography: she dismantled it and rebuilt it from within with the audacity of the pioneers. She turned it into a strange dream, into a shadow theatre, into a broken mirror where every tiny glass reflects a different identity. And, by the way, changed our way of looking at and looking at us. Her images are lies loaded with truth.…
As a child, she played dress up in second-hand party dresses from the 1940s and 1950s that her mother bought her in a local store. And with the vintage clothes of her great-grandmother that she found in the attic of her home. As a teenager, dressing was for her a form of rebellion and liberation. Maestro of the costume, Cindy Sherman is a blank canvas: she makes up just like a painter wears the brush in a painting. She adds wigs, dresses, access…
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