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Renowned self-portrait photographer Cindy Sherman goes public on Instagram

08 Aug

Renowned photographer Cindy Sherman has made her formerly private Instagram account public, allowing anyone to view and follow it. Sherman first launched the Instagram account last October under the handle @misterfriedas_mom, but has since been changed to @_cindysherman_. The account currently features nearly 600 posts and is growing like gangbusters—in the last two days alone her follower count has risen by nearly 30,000 to a total of 87.2K as of this writing.

Sherman—who is well-known for her critical self-portrait work following the release of her Untitled Film Stills project—has shared a variety of distorted and otherwise surreal selfies on Instagram, as well as more mundane images from her life. According to The New York Times, she uses the app Facetune (iOS | Android) to modify her selfies in extreme ways… this is probably one of the few times you’ll see selfies identified as bona fide art.

When she spoke with The New York Times early last year, Sherman said that social media “seems so vulgar” to her, but the draw of Instagram was too much. Several months later she launched a private account, and this weekend she finally opened it up for everyone to see.

Why exactly she has decided to make the account public isn’t clear, but fans of surreal self-portraits taken by MacArthur Genius Grant recipient have a new must-follow account to check out.

Articles: Digital Photography Review (dpreview.com)

 
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Cindy Sherman: Mannequins & Masks | Art21 “Exclusive”

24 Jul

Episode #087: Surveying some of the props shes used over the years, including masks and mannequin parts, artist Cindy Sherman demonstrates how she uses stand-ins to gauge the focus and composition of her images. In self-reflexive photographs and films, Cindy Sherman invents myriad guises, metamorphosing from Hollywood starlet to clown to society matron. Often with the simplest of means—a camera, a wig, makeup, an outfit—Sherman fashions ambiguous but memorable characters that suggest complex lives lived out of frame. Shermans investigations have a compelling relationship to public images, from kitsch (film stills and centerfolds) to art history (Old Masters and Surrealism) to green-screen technology and the latest advances in digital photography. Learn more about Cindy Sherman: www.art21.org VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Roger Phenix. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Cindy Sherman.

 

Dexter Early Cuts: Cindy Landon

06 May

Dexter finds himself in a tricky situation when he encounters black widow Cindy Landon. Season 5 returns in 2010.

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Video Rating: 3 / 5