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CINDY SHERMAN

CINDI SHERMAN. AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER, BEST KNOWN FOR HERCONCEPTUAL PORTRAITS. SHE BEGAN PAINTING. "THERE WAS NOTHING MORE TO SAY [THROUGH PAINTING]," SHE LATER RECALLED. "I WAS METICULOUSLY COPYING OTHER ART AND THEN I REALIZED I COULD JUST USE A CAMERA AND PUT MY TIME INTO AN IDEA INSTEAD." SHERMAN WORKS IN SERIES, TYPICALLY PHOTOGRAPHING HERSELF IN A RANGE OF COSTUMES. FOR EXAMPLE, IN HER LANDMARK 69 PHOTOGRAPH SERIES, THE COMPLETE UNTITLED FILM STILLS, (1977–1980) SHERMAN APPEARED AS B-MOVIE, FOREIGN FILM AND FILM NOIR STYLE ACTRESSES. A SERIES, DATED 2003, FEATURES HER AS CLOWNS. SHERMAN HAS APPROPRIATED A NUMBER OF OTHER VISUAL FORMS— THE CENTERFOLD, FASHION PHOTOGRAPH, HISTORICAL PORTRAIT, AND SOFT-CORE SEX IMAGE. THESE AND OTHER SERIES, LIKE THE 1980S "FAIRY TALES AND DISASTERS" SEQUENCE. WIKI VIEW HISTORY.

CANDIDA HÖFER

11.395 ANDRÉ KERTÉSZ

11.393 HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON

10.383 MAN RAY

10.381 SALLY MANN

10.376 ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE

10.373 BERND AND HILLA BECHER

10.362 DUANE MICHALS

10.316 ANDREAS FEININGER

ANDREAS FEININGER. GERMAN AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER, AND WRITER ON PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUE, NOTED FOR HIS DYNAMIC BLACK-AND-WHITE SCENES OF MANHATTAN AND STUDIES OF THE STRUCTURE OF NATURAL OBJECTS. FEININGER GREW UP AND WAS EDUCATED AS AN ARCHITECT IN GERMANY, WHERE HIS FATHER PAINTED AND TAUGHT AT STAATLICHES BAUHAUS. IN 1936, HE GAVE UP ARCHITECTURE ITSELF, AND FOCUSED ON PHOTOGRAPHY. IN 1939, FEININGER IMMIGRATED TO THE U.S. WHERE HE ESTABLISHED HIMSELF AS A FREELANCE PHOTOGRAPHER AND IN 1943 JOINED THE STAFF OF LIFE MAGAZINE. FEININGER WROTE COMPREHENSIVE MANUALS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY, OF WHICH THE BEST KNOWN IS THE COMPLETE PHOTOGRAPHER. IN 1966, THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MEDIA PHOTOGRAPHERS (ASMP) AWARDED FEININGER THE ROBERT LEAVITT AWARD.WIKI. VIEW HISTORY. 

CINDY SHERMAN

CINDI SHERMAN. AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHER, BEST KNOWN FOR HER CONCEPTUAL PORTRAITS. SHE BEGAN PAINTING. "THERE WAS NOTHING MORE TO SAY [THROUGH PAINTING]," SHE LATER RECALLED. "I WAS METICULOUSLY COPYING OTHER ART AND THEN I REALIZED I COULD JUST USE A CAMERA AND PUT MY TIME INTO AN IDEA INSTEAD." SHERMAN WORKS IN SERIES, TYPICALLY PHOTOGRAPHING HERSELF IN A RANGE OF COSTUMES. FOR EXAMPLE, IN HER LANDMARK 69 PHOTOGRAPH SERIES, THE COMPLETE UNTITLED FILM STILLS, (1977–1980) SHERMAN APPEARED AS B-MOVIE, FOREIGN FILM AND FILM NOIR STYLE ACTRESSES. A SERIES, DATED 2003, FEATURES HER AS CLOWNS. SHERMAN HAS APPROPRIATED A NUMBER OF OTHER VISUAL FORMS— THE CENTERFOLD, FASHION PHOTOGRAPH, HISTORICAL PORTRAIT, AND SOFT-CORE SEX IMAGE. THESE AND OTHER SERIES, LIKE THE 1980S "FAIRY TALES AND DISASTERS" SEQUENCE. WIKI VIEW HISTORY.