Untitled #474
Cindy Sherman
American, born 1954
2008
A seven-foot chromogenic photograph in which Cindy Sherman stages herself as an elaborate, aging socialite—using costume, makeup, hair, and a domestic set to blur portraiture and theatrical disguise.
Seen life-size, the picture reads like a staged tableau: her heavily made-up, mask-like face and posed stance feel both intimate and uncanny against a room crowded with framed head studies and warm lamplight.
Part of Sherman’s long project of invented selves, the work pushes photography into performance and critique, revealing how images manufacture social types, gendered roles, and the artifice behind ‘authentic’ identity.
Medium
Chromogenic print
Dimensions
7' 7" × 60 1/4" (231.1 × 153 cm)
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Credit
Acquired through the generosity of an anonymous donor, Michael Lynne, Charles Heilbronn, and the Carol and David Appel Family Fund
Accession
477.2011.x1-x2
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