Sherman was established on the basis of her untitled film stills, a series of black and white photographs, in which the artist depicts herself dressed in the gulses of cliched b movie heroines. Sherman has a quality which allows her to be present in her work, and yet never really be there. Her appropriation of the space on both sides of the lens destabilized the traditionally gendered opposition between artist and model, object or subject.
During the 80's Sherman began to use colour film, to exhibit very large prints, and concentrate more on lighting and facial expression. prosthetic appendages and liberal amounts of make-up moved ner work into the grotesque and the sinister.
Sherman is another photographer who portrays a narrative through a lense, however I find her work to be some what strange and I do not quite understand what it is she is trying to convey.
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