THE WIZARD lifted the basket onto his back, and carried it away, but it was heavy. After a while, he felt he could go no further, so he sat down. but before he had eased the basket from his shoulders, the oldest sister cried, "What, Fitcher, didn't i tell not to rest? I can see you through the little window.
Cindy Sherman
Cindy at the tate
Episode #087: Surveying some of the props shes used over the years, including masks and mannequin parts, artist Cindy Sherman demonstrates how she uses stand-ins to gauge the focus and composition of her images.
In self-reflexive photographs and films, Cindy Sherman invents myriad guises, metamorphosing from Hollywood starlet to clown to society matron. Often with the simplest of means—a camera, a wig, makeup, an outfit—Sherman fashions ambiguous but memorable characters that suggest complex lives lived out of frame. Shermans investigations have a compelling relationship to public images, from kitsch (film stills and centerfolds) to art history (Old Masters and Surrealism) to green-screen technology and the latest advances in digital photography.
A three minute excerpt from ART/new york program number 58, "CINDY SHERMAN: Transformations (c) 2002" by Paul Tschinkel.
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