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Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills comprises of over seventy black and white photographs made between 1977 and 1980. When thinking about this series, some aspects of her entire body of work immediately come to mind: disguise and theatricality, mystery and voyeurism, melancholy and vulnerability.
Untitled Film Stills is a series of black and white photographs by American visual artist Cindy Sherman predominantly made between 1977 and 1980, which gained her international recognition. Sherman casts herself in various stereotypical female roles inspired by 1950s and 1960s films.
In this regard, acclaimed art historian Rosalind Krauss has described Untitled Film Stills as ‘copies without originals’. Sherman’s stills are not presented as cinematic shots from a film but mimic instead in visual content, composition, and format, the staged pictures distributed to promote films.
Each of Sherman's sixty-nine Untitled Film Stills (1977–80), presents a female heroine from a movie we feel we must have seen. Here, she is the pert young career girl in a trim new suit on her first day in the big city.
Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills is a suite of seventy black-and-white photographs in which the artist posed in the guises of various generic female film characters, among them, ingénue, working girl, vamp, and lonely housewife.
Untitled Film Stills. Jun 26–Sep 2, 1997. MoMA. Exhibition. Sherman’s landmark series of 69 black-and-white photographs (1977–80), acquired in its entirety by the Museum in 1995. View the exhibition website. Installation images. 8 images. Publications. Cindy Sherman: The Complete. Untitled Film Stills Cindy Sherman, 2003 Exhibition catalogue,
Between 1977 and 1980 Sherman photographed herself in a series of sixty-seven scenarios staged to suggest the cinematic tropes of midcentury Hollywood. Here, she assumes the guise of the Hitchcockian "career girl" alone on the streets of the big city.
Rather, they are an unsettling yet deeply satisfying synthesis of film and narrative painting, a shrewdly composed remaking not of the "real" world but of the mediated landscape.
Sherman made this image in the wake of an astonishingly productive five-year run that yielded both her groundbreaking Untitled Film Stills (1977-80)-faked scenes from imaginary movies in which she was actress, director, and cinematographer-and her controversial follow-up series Centerfolds (1981), which was commissioned, and then rejected, by ...
This image is one of Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills, a series that eventually grew to include sixty-nine black-and-white staged photographs of the artist posing as an array of B-grade Hollywood female stereotypes of the 1950s and 1960s.