Now available in an updated paperback edition and including new photographs, this thorough and accessible introduction to the greatest women photographers from the 19th century to today features the most important works of 55 artists, along with in-depth biographical and critical assessments.

Since the inception of photography as an art form nearly 200 years ago, women have played an important role in the development of the genre, often pushing boundaries and defying social convention. This comprehensive volume presents fifty-five of the most important women photographers such as Eve Arnold, Nan Goldin, Candida Höfer, Dorothea Lange, Inge Morath, and Cindy Sherman. Each artist is profiled in spreads featuring splendid reproductions of their key works and in-depth overviews of their careers and contributions to photography. Biographical information for each subject and a contextual essay focusing on the impact of women in the history of the medium makes this an excellent illustrated reference.

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Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills, a series of black-and-white photographs created between 1977 and 1980, is widely seen as one of the most original and influential achievements in recent art. Witty, provocative, and searching, this lively catalogue of female roles inspired by the movies touches a vital nerve in our culture. This book marks the first time that the entire series has been published as a unified work. Sherman has arranged the sequence of the pictures and has written a personal essay about their making.

To the original sixty-nine Film Stills she has also added a seventieth, from a roll of film that for some years was lost.

A look at the seminal work of this conceptual artist, who photographed her trademark performances and created dramatic narrative collages using the results.

Created in 1975, A Play of Selves is a visual tale of a young woman overwhelmed by her various, conflicting alter-egos and her final triumph over self-doubt. Acted out with sixteen separate characters, the seventy-two photographic assemblages mark Sherman’s earliest explorations of her trademark use of herself as the subject in staged photographs.

Sherman originally shot hundreds of photographs of herself costumed as the various characters in dozens of poses. After cutting out the individual images from black-and-white prints, she used an elaborately formulated, handwritten script to organize the images into the five-act “play.” The piece was first shown in 1975, in Buffalo, New York, where Sherman was a student.

Katalog Museum of Modern Art New York

Working as her own model for more than 30 years, Cindy Sherman has captured herself in a range of guises and personas, from screen siren to clown to aging socialite. Schirmer/Mosel is publishing the catalogue of her upcoming MoMA retrospective plus, on the occasion, reprints of two seminal series, Clowns and History Portraits

Published to accompany the first major survey of Cindy Sherman's work in the United States in nearly 15 years, this publication presents a stunning range of work from the groundbreaking artist's 35-year career. Showcasing approximately 180 photographs from the mid-1970s to the present, including new works made for the exhibition and never before published, the volume is a vivid exploration of Sherman's sustained investigation into the construction of contemporary identity and the nature of representation. The book highlights major bodies of work including her seminal Untitled Film Stills (1977-80); centerfolds (1981); history portraits (1989-90); head shots (2000-2002); and two recent series on the experience and representation of aging in the context of contemporary obsessions with youth and status. An essay by curator Eva Respini provides an overview of Sherman's career, weaving together art historical analysis and discussions of the artist's working methods, and a contribution by art historian Johanna Burton offers a critical re-examination of Sherman's work in light of her recent series. A conversation between Cindy Sherman and filmmaker John Waters provides an enlightening view into the creative process.
Cindy Sherman (born 1954) is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential artists in contemporary art. To create her photographs, she assumes multiple roles of photographer, model, makeup artist, hairdresser and stylist. With an arsenal of wigs, costumes, makeup, prosthetics and props, the artist has altered her physique and surroundings to create myriad tableaux, from screen siren to clown to aging socialite. Over the past 35 years, Sherman has sustained a provocative investigation into the nature of identity, drawn from movies, television, magazines, the Internet and art history. Sherman lives and works in New York City.

Vor genau dreißig Jahren, 1982, hat Schirmer/Mosel das erste Cindy Sherman-Buch überhaupt veröffentlicht und in die Welt getragen. Die 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, geborene Künstlerin hat seitdem in atemberaubendem Tempo internationale Anerkennung erfahren, die ihren – bisherigen – Höhepunkt jetzt in der großen Einzelaus stellung im New Yorker Museum of Modern Art findet. Es ist uns zugleich Pflicht und Vergnügen, den zur Retrospektive erscheinenden MoMA-Katalog in einer deutschen Ausgabe vorzulegen.
Mit dem vielschichtigen, zwischen Kunst und Photographie anzusiedelnden Werk Cindy Shermans haben sich seit ihren Anfängen vor gut dreißig Jahren Kunstkritiker und -historiker, Soziologen, Feministinnen und Philosophen auseinandergesetzt. Ihre Selbstportraits, die keine sind, bieten nach wie vor Stoff für gesellschaftstheoretische Diskurse über Gender, Repräsentation, Identität, und die oft radikalen thematischen Brüche von Serie zu Serie werfen immer wieder Fragen nach der Person auf, die hinter all diesen Maskeraden und Inszenierungen steckt.
„Möge die wahre Cindy Sherman bitte vortreten“ betitelt Kuratorin Eva Respini in Anlehnung an eine amerikanische Fernsehshow der 50er Jahre ihren Essay für diese Publikation – um zu dem Schluss zu kommen: „Es gibt keine wahre Cindy Sherman, nur unendlich viele Figuren, in denen sich die zahllos vermittelten Bilder widerspiegeln, von denen wir täglich bombardiert werden … und die letzten Endes unser Selbstbild beeinflussen.“
Schirmer/Mosel. Hrsg. von Eva Respini. Mit Beiträgen von Johanna Burton und John Waters. Aus dem Amerikanischen von Matthias Wolf, Saskia Bontjes van Beek und Ursula Wulfekamp. 264 Seiten, 255 Tafeln in Farbe und Duotone. Format: 24,2 x 30,5 cm, gebunden. Deutsche Ausgabe.