Untitled Film Still #20 (Lincoln Tower Girl-Streetwalker)
Artist/Maker
Cindy Sherman
(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
On viewLike 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.
Exhibition 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
- On View
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postmarked July 4, 1958