Cindy Sherman (American, born 1954). Untitled, 1975/2004. Chromogenic print, Image: 3 3/4 x 7 in. (9.5 x 17.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Linda S. Ferber, 2005.10. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2005.10.jpg)
Cindy Sherman (American, born 1954). Untitled, 1975/2004. Chromogenic print, Image: 3 3/4 x 7 in. (9.5 x 17.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Linda S. Ferber, 2005.10. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2005.10_PS2.jpg)
Untitled
Photography
This photograph from early in Cindy Sherman’s artistic career indicates a burgeoning interest in what has become a lifelong investigation into using herself as subject. Produced in 1975, during her time as an art student at the State University of New York, Buffalo, the work prefigures her famous Untitled Film Stills series by two years. In it, the artist references Claude Cahun, an early Surrealist photographer whose androgynous self-portraits inspired a later generation of feminist theorists to think about gender as a social role that is performed rather than innate—ideas that would become central to Sherman’s oeuvre from the mid-1970s onward.
PRINTER
Charles Griffin, Inc.
MEDIUM
Chromogenic print
DATES
1975/2004
DIMENSIONS
Image: 3 3/4 x 7 in. (9.5 x 17.8 cm)
Sheet: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Photography
ACCESSION NUMBER
2005.10
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Linda S. Ferber
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Cindy Sherman (American, born 1954). Untitled, 1975/2004. Chromogenic print, Image: 3 3/4 x 7 in. (9.5 x 17.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Linda S. Ferber, 2005.10. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2005.10.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 2005.10.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2005
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RIGHTS STATEMENT
© Cindy Sherman
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