Postcards from New York/10: Cindy Sherman at MoMa

From the MoMa website: "Cindy Sherman (American, b. 1954) is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential artists in contemporary art. Throughout her career, she has presented a sustained, eloquent, and provocative exploration of the construction of contemporary identity and the nature of representation, drawn from the unlimited supply of images from movies, TV, magazines, the Internet, and art history. Working as her own model for more than 30 years, Sherman has captured herself in a range of guises and personas which are at turns amusing and disturbing, distasteful and affecting. To create her photographs, she assumes multiple roles of photographer, model, makeup artist, hairdresser, stylist, and wardrobe mistress. With an arsenal of wigs, costumes, makeup, prosthetics, and props, Sherman has deftly altered her physique and surroundings to create a myriad of intriguing tableaus and characters, from screen siren to clown to aging socialite."

Untitled #466. 2008. Chromogenic color print (Source)

Untitled #224 1990 Colour photograph (Source)

Untitled Film Still No.32 1979 Black and white photograph (Source)

Untitled No.122 1983 Colour photograph (Source)

Untitled #359, 2000 Color photograph (Source)