Powerpoint on Cindy Sherman

1. CINDY
SHERMAN
Jess Ross, Christian Smith, Adele Waddington and Kalina
Morgan

2. KEY BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
• Cindy Sherman was born in 1954, she is an American and most of her
focus is on photography and features in most of her own photographs
• She turned to photography at the end of the 1970’s in order to explore a
wide range of common female social roles or personas

3. CONTEXT
• Feminism
• Self portraiture
• Theatrical role play in art
• Sherman utilizes the camera and everyday tools in cinema to recreate
common illusions or iconic snapshots
• Stereotypes
• Directly confronts the viewer’s gaze
• She wants the audience to reconsider stereotypes about women and
cultural assumptions

4. PICTORIAL ANALYSIS
Movie staged; the composition of the character is staged as a drama’s taken
place, making the viewer think or reconsider the drama which is supposedly
unfolding behind the camera, we can tell this from the girl staring off the
camera
The low lighting adds to the tension from the character, the lighting high lights
key parts of the girl: the expression of the face and how she is positioned.
The white shirt against the dark background contrast