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Untitled Film Still (#55, Blonde in Alley)

Untitled Film Still (#55, Blonde in Alley)

Artist/Maker (American, b. 1954)
Date1980
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineEllen H. Johnson Bequest
Edition2/10
Object number1998.7.131
Status
Not on view
Copyright© Cindy Sherman / Hauser & WirthMore Information
Untitled Film Stills includes sixty-nine images in which Sherman posed as an imaginary actress in candid or unguarded moments. She worked on the series for three years and stopped when she "ran out of clichés". The collection of solitary heroines represents a particular kind of fictional femininity that was prevalent in postwar America. With her innovative approach, Sherman's photographs tend to carry a nostalgic view of that feminine image, while at the same time offering a subtle critique of it.
Exhibition History
Young Americans: Janet Cooling, Hudson, David Salle, Cindy Sherman, David Saunders, and David Wells
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (April 1, 1981 - May 3, 1981 )
The Living Object: The Art Collection of Ellen H. Johnson
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (March 6, 1992 - June 14, 1992 )
Facing the Camera: Selected Portrait Photographs from the Collection
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 21, 1995 - March 9, 1995 )
Facing America: Portraits of the People and the Land
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 18, 2006 - December 17, 2006 )
Artists on Artists
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 7, 2012 - July 29, 2012 )
Religion, Ritual, and Performance in Modern and Contemporary Art
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 28, 2012 - May 26, 2013 )
Barbara Bloom in Context: Works from the Pictures Generation
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (July 11, 2018 - December 23, 2018 )
Collections
  • Modern & Contemporary
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