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Untitled Film Stills

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Untitled Film Stills is a series of black-and-white photographs by the American visual artist Cindy Sherman, made predominantly between 1977 and 1980, which gained her international recognition. In the series, Sherman casts herself in various stereotypical female roles inspired by 1950s and 1960s films.

Facts
Partially Attested
Year Created
1977 1
Series made predominantly between 1977 and 1980; no single completion date applies to all seventy images.
Medium
Black-and-white photographs, series of seventy, each 8.5 by 11 inches 1
Location
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York 1
Classification
Genre
Photography 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Photograph 1
Connections

Created By

Cindy Sherman, Artists
Source Untitled Film Stills (Wikipedia)

In Form

Photography, Art Forms
Source Untitled Film Stills (Wikipedia)

In Genre

Photography, Art Forms
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Located In

United States

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1. Untitled Film Stills (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia
  • lead paragraph, first sentence
    Untitled Film Stills is a series of black and white photographs by American visual artist Cindy Sherman predominantly made between 1977 and 1980, which gained her international recognition.
  • Details section, third paragraph
    Modest in scale compared to Sherman's later cibachrome photographs, they are all 8½ × 11 inches, each displayed in identical, simple black frames.
  • Details section, second paragraph
    In December 1995, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) acquired all sixty-nine black-and-white photographs in the series.
  • Wikipedia article: work classified by its own real-world art form
  • In Form: Photography, lead paragraph
    Untitled Film Stills is a series of black and white photographs by American visual artist Cindy Sherman predominantly made between 1977 and 1980, which gained her international recognition. Sherman casts herself in various stereot
  • In Group: Portrait and Figure Photographs, Wikipedia intro
    Sherman casts herself in various stereotypical female roles inspired by 1950s and 1960s films.
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