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
2013.144.11
Art Historical Context
Lucas Samaras's *Cindy Sherman* (0) is a striking inkjet print from the National Gallery of Art's photography collection, generously gifted by Kimberly and John F. Zwkenbaum. Measuring 81.28 × 45.72 cm (image) on a 91.44 × 50.8 cm sheet, this photograph captures Samaras's signature experimental flair. Known for his innovative manipulations of the photographic medium since the 1960s—often using Polaroids to distort self-portraits and everyday objects—Samaras here turns his lens toward fellow artist Cindy Sherman, the iconic figure of postmodern photography celebrated for her chameleon-like self...
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...