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Cindy Sherman is an American photographer known for creating outlandish portraits that often depicted sexual stereotypes and commented on social role-playing. You can shop a selection of Cindy Sherman pieces from some of the world’s top art dealers on 1stDibs.
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Cindy Sherman - UNTITLED #414 (CLOWNS. 2003) Limited Skate Modern Photography
By Cindy Sherman
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Cindy Sherman - UNTITLED #414 (CLOWNS. 2003)
Date of creation: 2022
Medium: Digital print on Canadian maple wood
Edition: 50
Size: 80 x 20 cm (each skate)
Condition: In mint conditio...
Category
2010s Modern Black and White Photography
Materials
Wood, Maple, Screen
Hamptons International Film Festival poster (hand signed and inscribed) RARE!
By Cindy Sherman
Located in New York, NY
Cindy Sherman
Hamptons International Film Festival poster (hand signed and inscribed by Cindy Sherman), 2006
Offset lithograph poster
Bold signature and inscription in black marker by Cindy Sherman on the front
32 × 24 inches
Unframed
This print was made for the 14th Hamptons International Film Festival from October 18-22, 2006. It was boldly inscribed in black marker to Peter by Cindy Sherman.
Publisher:
Hamptons International Film Festival
Cindy Sherman Biography:
Born in 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Cindy Sherman lives and works in New York NY. Her ground-breaking photographs have interrogated themes around representation and identity in contemporary media for over four decades. Coming to prominence in the late 1970s with the Pictures Generation group alongside artists such as Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince and Louise Lawler, Sherman studied art at Buffalo State College in 1972 where she turned her attention to photography. In 1977, shortly after moving to New York, Sherman began her critically acclaimed Untitled Film Stills. A suite of 69 black and white portraits, Untitled Film Stills sees Sherman impersonate a myriad of stereotypical female characters and caricatures inspired by Hollywood pictures, film noir, and B movies. Using a range of costumes, props and backdrops to manipulate her own appearance and to create photographs resembling promotional film images, the series explores the tension between artifice and identity in consumer culture which has preoccupied the artist’s practice ever since.
Sherman continued to channel and reconstruct familiar personas known to the collective psyche, often in unsettling ways. In 1981, the artist created her Centerfolds, a series of photographic double spreads inspired by men’s erotic...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Felt Pen, Lithograph, Offset
The Nine Lives of Cindy, porcelain plate & official COA in box Lt Edition of 100
By Cindy Sherman
Located in New York, NY
Cindy Sherman
The Nine Lives of Cindy, 2019
Printed Bone Porcelain
12 1/2 in diameter
Limited Edition of 100
Plate signed verso and also accompanied by plate signed documentation card/official Certificate of Authenticity
In original box
Produced exclusively for the National Portrait Gallery in the United Kingdom on the occasion of the 2019 Cindy Sherman exhibition which also traveled to the Vancouver Art Gallery.
Acquired directly from the National Portrait Gallery before it sold out.
Cindy Sherman Biography:
Born in 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Cindy Sherman lives and works in New York NY. Her ground-breaking photographs have interrogated themes around representation and identity in contemporary media for over four decades. Coming to prominence in the late 1970s with the Pictures Generation group alongside artists such as Sherrie Levine, Richard Prince and Louise Lawler, Sherman studied art at Buffalo State College in 1972 where she turned her attention to photography. In 1977, shortly after moving to New York, Sherman began her critically acclaimed Untitled Film Stills. A suite of 69 black and white portraits, Untitled Film Stills sees Sherman impersonate a myriad of stereotypical female characters and caricatures inspired by Hollywood pictures, film noir, and B movies. Using a range of costumes, props and backdrops to manipulate her own appearance and to create photographs resembling promotional film images, the series explores the tension between artifice and identity in consumer culture which has preoccupied the artist’s practice ever since.
Sherman continued to channel and reconstruct familiar personas known to the collective psyche, often in unsettling ways. In 1981, the artist created her Centerfolds, a series of photographic double spreads inspired by men’s erotic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain, Mixed Media, Screen, Paper
Untitled #114 By Cindy Sherman
By Cindy Sherman
Located in London, GB
Untitled #114
By Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman is a renowned American photographer and conceptual artist, widely celebrated for her ground breaking work in contemporary art. Best kn...
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Cindy Sherman at Kunsthaus Bregen (Limited Edition hand signed by Cindy Sherman)
By Cindy Sherman
Located in New York, NY
Cindy Sherman
Limited Edition Offset Lithograph on 200g Profisilk paper
33 × 23 1/4 inches
Edition of 200
Limited Edition Offset Lithograph on 200g Profisilk paper
Hand signed in re...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Prints
Materials
Offset, Lithograph, Felt Pen
Untitled Film Still #59
By Cindy Sherman
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Since the late 1970's Cindy Sherman has donned an array of personas to explore how women are perceived and presented in Western culture.
Sherman's "Untitled Film Stills...
Category
1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin