Cindy Sherman
2010
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View on museum website →Medium
inkjet print
Dimensions
image: 81.28 × 45.72 cm (32 × 18 in.) sheet: 91.44 × 50.8 cm (36 × 20 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Kimberly and John F. Zwetchkenbaum
Accession Number
2013.144.10
Art Historical Context
Lucas Samaras's *Cindy Sherman* (2010) is a striking inkjet print from the National Gallery of Art's collection, generously gifted by Kimberly and John F. Zwkenbaum. Measuring 81.28 × 45.72 cm (32 × 18 in.) in its image area, this photograph exemplifies Samaras's lifelong fascination with the transformative power of the lens. A Greek-American artist born in 1934, Samaras gained acclaim in the 1960s and 1970s for his pioneering "Photo-Transformations"—-altered Polaroids that blurred the lines between reality and distortion, influencing generations of experimental photographers. Created decades...
About the Artist
Lucas Samaras
Lucas Samaras, a Greek-born American artist renowned for his boundary-defying explorations of self and identity, was born on September 14, 1936, in Kastoria, Greece. Immigrating to the United States with his family in 1948 amid the turmoil of World War II and the Greek Civil War, he settled in West New York, New Jersey. Samaras pursued studies at Rutgers University from 1955 to 1959, where he befr...