Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman’s career is one defined by disguise. Employing herself as model, she uses cosmetics and costume to examine the drama and grotesquery of the modern image; often tinged with menace, her photographs are a chimeric catalogue of type-figures. She began by depicting hypothetical B-movie characters in the 1970s, and has long since trod the boards of dark theatricality. One of the foremost artists in photography, she transgresses the boundaries of self-portraiture with a piercing and often disturbing gaze.
