How Did Cindy Sherman Contribute To The Stereotypes Of Women

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Cindy Sherman was born in 1954, in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. She started off as a painter, but after becoming frustrated with the medium, turned to photography to avoid what Sherman viewed as the limits of the painting medium. She started out taking conceptual photographs of herself to call attention to the stereotypes of women, and later moved on to the other struggles of women. Cindy Sherman later became one of America’s most well-known contemporary photography artists, with many exhibits in museums around the country. To take a look at Cindy Sherman’s work, I looked at two photographs in her “Untitled Film Stills” collection. I looked at Untitled Film Still #13, and Untitled Film Still #64. Untitled Film Still #13 pictures Cindy dressed