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Cindy Sherman

Recently we watched a video of  Cindy Sherman video in our discourse class, and found out more about her life and what she does as a photographer. She dresses herself up does her make up and takes photograph of herself portraying to be different character. She said ''some people use the camera to straight on document exactly what they see but what might be interesting is to show what you might never see...showing somebody imagination'' BBC Arena(1994). She makes a totally different looking characters, and adds life to them by having the lighting and everything so perfect. She photographs a role on a women and many more. She was born in 1954, in Glen Rdge, New Jersey,

 

Cindy Sherman (2004)

In 1992 she did series of close up and extreme close up of her dolls, which is now known as 'sex pictures' shown as picture above, her photograph has that feel a image of being used and how hard it can be for being an women you can see that sadness in her photograph. Her image has that power to make one feel somewhat sorry for them, even if its lifeless. She sets up her lighting in a manner that gives power to the image.

BBC Arena. (1994). Cindy Sherman - Nobody's Here But Me (1994).Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXKNuWtXZ_U. Last accessed 10th May 2014.

Cindy Sherman. (2004). Cindy Sherman Biography. Available: http://www.cindysherman.com/biography.shtml. Last accessed 10th May 2014.