Look At Me: Self-Portrait Photography After Cindy Sherman / Dalton, Jennifer

Dalton, Jennifer, «Look At Me: Self-Portrait Photography After Cindy Sherman». PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art, 22,  3, (2000), pp. 47-56

Abstract

Any photographer working with self-portraiture today is necessarily working in the long shadow cast by Cindy Sherman. A rash of intelligent and enthusiastic responses to the challenge of her formidable precedent has recently appeared, generated by young artists clearly working with one eye on their distinguished precursor and the other—determined—in their lenses. Three strong voices emerge as most prominent among the young artists turning the camera on themselves and mining the fertile land so presciently staked out by Sherman, each grappling with his or her own face, identity, and vanity. These are the selfcamouflage artist Nikki S. Lee, adolescence-obsessed Anthony Goicolea, and celebrity hound David Henry Brown, Jr.

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ISSN: 1537-9477
DOI: 10.2307/3247840
URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/25779
Language: EN
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