Cindy Sherman

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American photographer

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According to Wikipedia, Cynthia Morris Sherman is an American artist whose work consists primarily of photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as various imagined characters. Her breakthrough work is often considered to be the collected Untitled Film Stills, a series of 70 black-and-white photographs of herself evoking typical female roles in performance media . In the 1980s, she used color film and large prints, and focused more on costume, lighting and facial expression.

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