Untitled, from the portfolio The Indomitable Spirit
- Title:
- Untitled, from the portfolio The Indomitable Spirit
- Collection:
- Introduction to Photography Collections at Cornell
- Set:
- Inequality and legacies of discrimination
- Creator:
- Sherman, Cindy
- Creation Date:
- 1979 (negative)
1989 (print)
- ID Number:
- 2018
- File Name:
- 2018.067.jpg
- Work Type:
- Photograph
- Materials/Techniques:
- chromogenic color prints
- Subject:
- AIDS (Disease)
AIDS (Disease) and the arts--Exhibitions
Gender roles/stereotypes
Discrimination and health/AIDS and homophobia - Measurement:
- 45.7 × 58.7 (Image) (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- Sherman, a white woman approximately 25 years old wearing a short platinum blonde wig, photographed somewhat voyeuristically at a patio table through leaves. She is seated at a table, painting her toenails with one foot up on a chair in front of her. She's looking to the right over a pair of dark sunglasses, holding a cigarette in the corner of her mouth, and wearing a diaphanous top.
- Notes:
- Edition 22/50 + 15 AP
A self-portrait of the artist posed as a sultry character, smoking and painting her toenails. She is framed as though viewed voyeuristically. - Cite As:
- Cindy Sherman (American, born 1954), Unititled from the Portfolio The Indomitable Spirit, 1989. Chromogenic color print, image: 45.7 × 58.7 cm. Gift of Melissa Russell Rubel, Class of 1985, and Matthew Rubel; Stewart Russell, Class of 1987, and Meg Russell; and Jonathan Russell, Class of 1993, MBA 1994, and Sue Russell, in loving memory of Stephen Russell, Class of 1960, MBA 1961, 2018.067.
- Repository:
- Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
- Format:
- Image
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