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Cindy Sherman Cindy Sherman, American Photographer and Artist, born 1954 in Long Island, New York, Arts Graduate 1976. Sherman's subject matter whilst always feminine, includes discourses on film stills, magazine centrefolds, fashion spreads, advertising, children's literature, formal portraiture, historical records, mannequins and the monstrous body. Sherman's work spans a 25 year period, making her one of the most successful and talked about female artists of the post-modern era. Indeed there is a plethora of academic and critical thought that has been written on her productions. Her work has been analysed and psycho-analysed ad infinitum. It is interesting to note, much to the dismay of varying parties, that Sherman refuses to comment on her work - even to the fullest extent where she refuses to give them a name, referring to her productions as Untitled #. I believe this is in part due to Sherman's desire to have the observer read the...

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