Cindy Sherman: The true Selfie Queen

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It is one of the most in-demand artists in the world: The American Cindy Sherman staged herself and criticized as, among other things, the simplified presentation of women in the media. Now she is 65 years old.

You’re never too old for a Selfie – or Instagram. At least not if you mean of Cindy Sherman The American photographer known for her unusual self-portraits. Although you 2017 said the “W Magazine”, that you “hate the idea of Selfies” is the artist, the on 19. January is 65 years old, on Instagram straight into their Element. In 2016, she said the “New York Times Magazine,” is that they think social media is “vulgar”. After initial restraint in the use of social media by Sherman opened the end of 2016, but a public profile on Instagram, a platform that is in teenagers, fashionistas and Celebrities are very popular.

The result is a collection of photographs that fits your personality: a lively Landscape paintings, a series with your backyard chickens, recordings from the plane of clouds and in between the images of Cindy Sherman.

In your self-portraits are not, however, ordinary Selfies, how do you get to see them otherwise on Instagram: Sherman edited the photos with several Apps including Facetune, Perfect365, and YouCam Makeup. Also make-up and accessories you can add.

Screenshot of the Instagram profile of Cindy Sherman

In a series of three images for example, one sees the artist in a red silk kimono pose, the Background in each photo. Her lips are oversized and glow pink. On another picture, she has traded her typical blonde hairstyle against a brown curly wig.

Sherman uses modern technology to make the images, and to stage as a socio-critical comment.

Social criticism and Protest

With distortion Sherman also works with your photos that you created for Instagram: you costumes, and makeup changes as a Clown, then as a Fashionista and image editing using programs such as Photoshop, to change your appearance then.

The photographer is known to stage of your own body as a platform for public debate. It presents itself as the main object of your own images. In short: she is a photographer and model at the same time.

Sherman even referred to her images as self-portraits, because you slip into that Moment in a role. It is not a question, but rather, they want to show how women are generally represented.

With her famous series “Untitled Film Stills” (1977-1980), consisting of a total of 69 images, criticized Sherman for example, the stereotypical representation of women in Hollywood films of the 1950s and 60s, or the advertising: The Black-and-White photographs show the artist in the role of the innocent girl, the lonely house wife or the seductress.

Dapper: Cindy Sherman on her “Untitled film still #22”

Fashion icon and critic of pop culture

In spite of their criticism of the representation of women’s Work, such as this Sherman in the fashion and culture industry have made popular. In the 1980s, she designed fashion ads that appeared in the American Lifestyle magazine “Interview Magazine”. In the 90s, they also began with the designers of the Japanese to cooperate, including Rei Kawakubo.

In 1993, and in 2016, she produced portrait series for Harper’s Bazaar. Your last deals with the street-style fashion photography and shows how absurd it is that Social Media Stars to be surrounded by professional photographers and so-called “plandids”, asked snapshots, make.

In 2011, stung Cindy Sherman with a record: of their work, “Untitled #96” at the auction of 3.89 million dollars, the hitherto highest total for a photo. And even today, her works for millions to sell yourself, so Sherman from the “art compass” in addition to judges (1), Naumann (2), Baselitz (3) and Trockel (4) is counted to the most important artists of the present.

“Untitled #96” in the New York auction house Christie’s

For her work, Sherman has received numerous awards, including the MacArthur genius grant, or the renowned Goslarer Kaiserring. The last one was the Max Beckmann prize of the city of Frankfurt awarded, you get in February will be awarded. Frankfurt’s head of Cultural Affairs, Ina Hartwig said, Sherman belong to, with its dazzling, fractured visual language “is a long cultural memory of the early 21st century. Century”.