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cindy sherman
Artist: Cindy Sherman
Born: 1954 Glen Ridge, NJ and raised in suburban Long Island
School: Earned a BA Degree in 1976, Buffalo State University of N.Y., where she initially
studied painting. She failed the requisite introductory photography course because
of her difficulties with the technological aspects of making a print. She credits her next
photography teacher with introducing her to conceptual art, which she says had a
liberating effect on her.
Graduated in 1977 and moved to …
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…tales.
Her images, mostly untitled, record the dark underbelly of the stories and media
imagery whose placid happiness and "happily ever after" endings we take for
granted.
In Sherman's fairy tale series from 1985, she puts a surreal twist on the pleasantries
of Mother Goose and more appropriately, the bleak, often violent stories from
Brother's Grimm. Disney would not approve.
The fairy tales play on artifice and humor to create magical mirrors of metaphors.
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