Untitled Film Stills is a series comprising of 69 black and white photographs by Cindy Sherman, which she created between 1977 and 1980. The series’ images are sketchily developed and a moderate 8.5 x 11 inches in size, with no explicit citations or titles.
Cindy Sherman established her reputation—and a novel brand of uncanny self-portraiture—with her “Untitled Film Stills” (1977-80), a series of 69 photographs of the artist herself enacting female clichés of 20th-century pop culture.
EVA RESPINI: This photograph is part of a series of pictures that feature women of a certain age, from the top echelons of polite society. Untitled Film Stills is a series comprising of 69 black and white photographs by Cindy Sherman, which she created between 1977 and 1980. The series’ images are sketchily developed and a moderate 8.5 x 11 inches in size, with no explicit citations or titles. Part of Sherman’s fashion pictures series, Untitled #122 was inspired by the actress Frances Farmer. Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills comprises of over seventy black and white photographs made between 1977 and 1980. We see a woman in an opulent caftan posing against a fabulous backdrop.
When thinking about this series, some aspects of her entire body of work immediately come to mind: disguise and theatricality, mystery and voyeurism, melancholy and vulnerability.
From The Broad Collection: Cindy Sherman, Untitled #122, 1983, chromogenic color print, The Broad Art Foundation.
Untitled Film Stills. From The Broad Collection: Cindy Sherman, Untitled #201, 1989, chromogenic color print, The Broad Art Foundation.
NARRATOR: Eva Respini, Associate Curator in the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #228 is part of her series of photographs, History Portraits.This body of work was completed from 1988-90, while the artist was living in Rome. Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills comprises of over seventy black and white photographs made between 1977 and 1980. Untitled Film Stills. Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills is a suite of seventy black-and-white photographs in which the artist posed in the guises of various generic female film characters, among them, ingénue, working girl, vamp, and lonely housewife. However, she did not go and visit the great works of Italian Renaissance and Baroque art that was all around her, but rather chose to look at them as reproductions in books. When thinking about this series, some aspects of her entire body of work immediately come to mind: disguise and theatricality, mystery and …
Cindy Sherman established her reputation—and a novel brand of uncanny self-portraiture—with her “Untitled Film Stills” (1977-80), a series of 69 photographs of the artist herself enacting female clichés of 20th-century pop culture.
EVA RESPINI: This photograph is part of a series of pictures that feature women of a certain age, from the top echelons of polite society. Untitled Film Stills is a series comprising of 69 black and white photographs by Cindy Sherman, which she created between 1977 and 1980. The series’ images are sketchily developed and a moderate 8.5 x 11 inches in size, with no explicit citations or titles. Part of Sherman’s fashion pictures series, Untitled #122 was inspired by the actress Frances Farmer. Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills comprises of over seventy black and white photographs made between 1977 and 1980. We see a woman in an opulent caftan posing against a fabulous backdrop.
When thinking about this series, some aspects of her entire body of work immediately come to mind: disguise and theatricality, mystery and voyeurism, melancholy and vulnerability.
From The Broad Collection: Cindy Sherman, Untitled #122, 1983, chromogenic color print, The Broad Art Foundation.
Untitled Film Stills. From The Broad Collection: Cindy Sherman, Untitled #201, 1989, chromogenic color print, The Broad Art Foundation.
NARRATOR: Eva Respini, Associate Curator in the Department of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Cindy Sherman’s Untitled #228 is part of her series of photographs, History Portraits.This body of work was completed from 1988-90, while the artist was living in Rome. Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills comprises of over seventy black and white photographs made between 1977 and 1980. Untitled Film Stills. Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills is a suite of seventy black-and-white photographs in which the artist posed in the guises of various generic female film characters, among them, ingénue, working girl, vamp, and lonely housewife. However, she did not go and visit the great works of Italian Renaissance and Baroque art that was all around her, but rather chose to look at them as reproductions in books. When thinking about this series, some aspects of her entire body of work immediately come to mind: disguise and theatricality, mystery and …