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Cindy Sherman 30 years of staged photography
Throughout the thirty years Cindy Sherman (b. 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey) has worked as an artist,
she has almost exclusively used herself as a model. Sherman stages, directs and photographs herself in ever-changing disguises which are not, however, self-portraits. Each picture reflects a new identity taken from
the mass media's stereotyped views of women.
Sherman manipulates her own body by means of make-up, clothes and artificial body parts, staging herself
as various figures that she invents or re-invents, after which she photographs herself in her studio. Sherman's idiom varies from the amusing and hu...
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Richard Avedon Everyone is Anyone 50 ans de photographies
For more than fifty years Richard Avedon (b. 1923) has maintained his position as one of the great names of fashion photography. As early as the 1950s he achieved star status and was permanently attached to the magazines Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. He was the first to break down the barriers between so-called ‘serious' and ‘non-serious' photography. But Richard Avedon is more than a fashion photographer, he is also an outstanding portrait photographer who, along with Irving Penn, has transformed portrait photography in the twentieth century. While Penn's portraits are ...
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