Portraits
December 1, 2007, 5:34 pm
Filed under: Cindy Sherman, Paintings, Portraits, art | Tags: , , ,

A few weeks ago I shot a series of photographs of myself.  I’m mesmerized by Cindy Sherman’s ability to capture her own mysterious moments.  I suppose nobody’s a better model than yourself, since you know yourself the best.

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As one of the best-known fairy tales, Cinderella has over 340 variations

Cinderella

  • original writers of fairy tales : Grimm Brothers or Charles Perrault, and perhaps Hans Christian Andersen.
  • In a time of political censorship, where women had few rights, fairy tales were one way that they could make their opinions known.
  • As one of the best-known fairy tales, Cinderella has over 340 variations (more…)



Fabricated Photography
October 13, 2006, 2:20 am
Filed under: Cindy Sherman, Photography

- Ellen Brooks
http://www.ellenbrooksart.com/pc/
- James Casebere, Robert Cumming, John Divola, Sandy Skoglund, Boyd Webb
- pictures whose nonhuman subjects have been constructed by the photographer for the sole purpose of being photographed
- subset of “set-up photography” or “staged photography”
Cindy Sherman
William Wegman’s images of dressed up dogs

Atkins, Robert. ARTSPEAK A Guide to Conteporary Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1945 to the Present Second Edition. New York: Abbeville Press Publishers, 1997.