cavetocanvas: Untitled Film Still (#54) - Cindy Sherman, 1980 From the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Between 1977 and 1980 Sherman photographed herself in a series of sixty-seven staged scenarios in the manner of postwar European and American movies. In each picture, the artist foregrounds the elements of cinematic form—from gaze and camera angle to lighting, costume, and backdrop—that trigger the stock narratives and characters from which our identities are composed.

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Untitled Film Still (#54) - Cindy Sherman, 1980

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art:

Between 1977 and 1980 Sherman photographed herself in a series of sixty-seven staged scenarios in the manner of postwar European and American movies. In each picture, the artist foregrounds the elements of cinematic form—from gaze and camera angle to lighting, costume, and backdrop—that trigger the stock narratives and characters from which our identities are composed.