Untitled
1988; printed 2003
from the History portraits series 1988-90
- Medium
- type C photograph
- Measurements
- (94.2 × 57.5 cm) (image)
- Place/s of Execution
- United States
- Edition
- ed. 5/6
- Inscription
- inscribed in fibre-tipped pen on frame on reverse c.: Cindy Sherman / 5/6 1988
printed in black and green ink on paper label on frame on reverse c.: METRO PICTURES / 519 WEST 24TH STREET NEW YORK 10011 / Cindy Sherman / Untitled, 1988 (Untitled underlined) / colour photograph / (image) 38 x 22 314 / (frame) 43 x 27½ / Edition 5/6 / (MP#183-A) - Accession Number
- 2004.641
- Department
- International Photography
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 2004
© Cindy Sherman. Courtesy of the artist and Metro Pictures
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Bowness Family Foundation - Gallery location
- Level 3, NGV International
- About this work
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Describing the complex conundrum presented by Cindy Sherman in this photograph, photographer and curator Patrick Pound once wrote:
Fake chested and with a face like a mask, here Cindy Sherman is costumed to the max. She stares out like a disapproving Renaissance figure who has just walked off set from a Peter Greenaway extravaganza. Here we have a photographer looking like a painting that walked out of a film. Sherman’s photographs speak of the fragilities of the visage in an image-saturated world where information and construction slip into foreplay. In Sherman’s photographic world gender and identity is a compilation album. There is a toughness to the excess that is all her own.
