Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman
Cynthia Morris "Cindy" Shermanis an American photographer and film director, best known for her conceptual portraits. In 1995, she was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth19 January 1954
CityGlen Ridge, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
art interest traditional
I didn't have any interest in traditional art.
art ideas use
I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.
photography art photographer
One reason I was interested in photography was to get away from the preciousness of the art object.
art believe harder
Believing in one’s own art becomes harder and harder when the public response grows fonder.
photography thinking artist
People think because it's photography it's not worth as much, and because it's a woman artist, you're still not getting as much - there's still definitely that happening. I'm still really competitive when it comes to, I guess, the male painters and male artists. I still think that's really unfair.
feminist-art bullshit stuff
The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff.
artist want males
I want[ed] to make a show of really big pictures, because you see male artists doing it all the time. It just seemed like such a big egotistical thing. I thought, 'I don't know that many women that really do that.... Damn it, I'm gonna do that-make this really big picture.'
art book people
I wanted to create something that people could relate to without having read a book about it beforehand.
art thinking knowing
I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could relate to without knowing about contemporary art. I wasn't thinking in terms of precious prints or archival quality; I didn't want the work to seem like a commodity.
meet sexy wait
I think Chasz is really sexy and fascinating and I can't WAIT to meet him!
thinking political dresses
I didn't think of what I was doing as political. To me it was a way to make the best out of what I liked to do privately, which was to dress up.
thinking kind exploration
I am fine, though it is hard to think of what kind of work to make at this point, other than decorative, escapist or abstract. I suppose I'll explore one or all of these things.
dad self catholic
My dad was such a bigot. He was a horrible, self-centred person. He was really racist and he'd talk about the Jews and blacks and Catholics even
successful people feelings
I was feeling guilty in the beginning; it was frustrating to be successful when a lot of my friends weren't. Also, I was constantly being reminded of that by people in my family making jokes.