Fashioning
Fiction in Photography since 1990 foto:
In
her fashion photographs, Cindy Sherman uses clothes as props to undermine
the desirability of fashion. The pictures are the antithesis of fashion
and glamour: instead of perfectly turned out models, her characters
are horror film harridans. Just as Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills
critique women’s roles in society as described by movies, her
fashion photographs challenge the glamorous veneer of the industry,
concocting characters who are the its ultimate victims.
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