Cindy Sherman:Characters

 

Susan Sontag on photography

“Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire.”

“Although  there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much as interpretations of the world as paintings and drawings are.”

Revisiting Carrie Mae Weem’s Landmark “Kitchen Table Series”

“ I think that the most work that’s made by black artists is considered to be about blackness. Unlike work that’s made by white artists, which is assumed to be universal at its core.”

“This woman can stand in for me and for you, she can stand in for the audience, she leads you into history. She’s a witness and a guide.”

The Cindy Sherman Effect

“We are in the era of YouTube fame and reality TV shows and makeovers, where you can be anything you want to be any minute of the day, and artists are responding to that.”

“Originally painters painted self portraits, and then she kind of blew it open with photographic portraiture, and now there are all these avenues younger artists are taking, which would not have been so easy without her work.”