Title

Untitled Film Still #64

Description

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. Staged to resemble scenes from 1950s and ’60s Hollywood, film noir, B movies, and European art-house films, the printed images mimic in format, scale, and quality the often-staged “stills” used to promote films. By photographing herself in such roles, Sherman inserts herself into a dialogue about stereotypical portrayals of women. Whether she was the one to release the camera’s shutter or not, she is considered the author of the photographs. However, the works in Untitled Film Stills are not considered self-portraits

Creator

Sherman, Cindy

Date

1980

Type

photograph

Medium

gelatin silver prints

Subject

film stills

roles

pose

Source

MoMA Website

Extent

6 7/16 × 9 7/16"

place of repository

MoMA

Identifier

873.1995

Is Part Of

Untitled Film Stills (1977-1980)