"Untitled #303"
Photograph
By: Cindy Sherman
Date: 1994
Source: Sherman, Cindy. "Untitled #303." Reproduced in Cindy Sherman: A Retrospective. Edited by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1997.
About the Artist: Cindy Sherman (1954–) was born in Glenn Ridge, New Jersey. She began her artistic career as a painter, but switched to photography during college. Sherman attended the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she earned a B.A. in 1976. At twenty-nine, Sherman was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship. In 1995, she was awarded a MacArthur "genius" Grant.
Introduction
"Untitled #303" is one of Cindy Sherman's later works that portrays women with surreal, sometimes nightmarish, fairy-tale qualities. It is typical of her entire body of work—dating back to the "Untitled Film Stills" from the mid-1970s that brought her...
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