Untitled Film Stills

Résumé du livre

The present volume introduces the early work of the artist : forty black-and-white photographs from the late 1970s, laconically referred to as the "Untitled Film Stills". With them, Cindy Sherman demonstrates that the genre of the film still is the paragon of popular culture. The images, with which everyone is familiar from movie theatres, tell several stories simultaneously : their own, as an individual photograph and as part of a series, that of the particular film and its actors and that of the public and its expectations. ...