Cindy Sherman: Untitled Film Still #6

Cindy Sherman has been celebrated as the most extraordinary artist of her generation. Her photographs, such as Untitled Film Still #6, explore the ways in which our individual and collective identities are formed, and then reformed, by our consumption of media imagery.
Recognizing how our image saturated environment has shaped her own personal development, Sherman has created an art that invites us to consider ways in which we connect appearance and identity.
This video contextualizes Sherman’s creative evolution across three distinct eras of media. From the advent of American commercial mass media in the 1950s and 1960s. To the emergence of global satellite media in the 1980s. To the on-going proliferation of digital social media.
This evolution of media has inspired Sherman to visually examine both the flexibility of identity, as well as the ways in which identity can be projected through appearance.