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Untitled Film Still #20 (Lincoln Tower Girl-Streetwalker)
Untitled Film Still #20 (Lincoln Tower Girl-Streetwalker)

Untitled Film Still #20 (Lincoln Tower Girl-Streetwalker)

Artist/Maker (American, b. 1954)
Date1978
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsMount: 16 1/4 × 20 1/16 in. (41.2 × 50.9 cm)
Credit LineFriends of Art Endowment Fund
Edition2/3
Object number1981.21
Status
Not on view
Copyright© Cindy Sherman / Hauser & WirthMore Information
Like her predecessor Claude Cahun, Cindy Sherman has also made herself the subject of staged photographs throughout her work. In her series of Untitled Film Stills (1977-80), Sherman posed as an imaginary actress in candid moments reminiscent of "film noir" movie stills. Exploring clichés of 1950s B-movie femininity, taking on such roles as the brutalized victim, the vamp, or the hooker. The collection of solitary heroines comments on a range of gender issues, and reflects a view of this fictionalized femininity that is at once nostalgic and critical.
Provenance(Metro Pictures, New York); (for sale 1981 Allen Memorial Art Museum purchase party, Oberlin, OH); purchased 1981 by Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OHExhibition History
None of These Things Is Just Like the Other: Twelve Students Raid the Collection
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (May 13, 1994 - July 17, 1994 )
Subjects of Desire: Issues in Contemporary Photography
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 7, 1997 - March 9, 1997 )
Facing America: Portraits of the People and the Land
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 18, 2006 - December 17, 2006 )
Artists on Artists
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 7, 2012 - July 29, 2012 )
Religion, Ritual, and Performance in Modern and Contemporary Art
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 28, 2012 - May 26, 2013 )
Barbara Bloom in Context: Works from the Pictures Generation
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (July 11, 2018 - December 23, 2018 )
Do It Again: Repetition as Artistic Strategy, 1945 to Now
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 25, 2020 - July 2, 2021 )
Femme 'n isms, Part II: Flashpoints in Photography
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 2, 2024 - January 18, 2025 )
Collections
  • Modern & Contemporary
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