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How Did Cindy Sherman Use Reinterpretation?

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The Oxford English dictionary defines 'reinterpretation' as the action of interpreting something in a new or different light such as ‘his reinterpretation of modern rock classics. In this essay I will be looking at the work of Cindy Sherman and Cornelia Parker who use ‘reinterpretation’ to explore domestic themes. Cindy Sherman was on born January 19, 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey and is an American photographer and film director who is best known for her self-portraits. Cornelia was born who was born in 1956 on the 14th of July, she is an English sculptor and installation artist and grew up in Cheshire and studied at Gloucester College of Art from 1974 – 1975. She is best known for her large-scale art pieces. Parker has explored ideas using an 'explosion technique' where she had her garden shed blown up and …show more content…

Sherman went to school at Buffalo State College, just outside New York and studied studio courses which consisted of drawing, painting and photography. Sherman failed the photography class due to the technical side of the course, and then she decided to focus more on her painting skills. Later on Sherman studied with a photography instructor called Barbara Jo Revelle who inspired her to 'just take pictures'. She found photography more appealing than trying to paint perfect copies of things, as she enjoyed photography more than she thought she would and then decided to switch majors. In 1977 she started to work on “Complete Untitled Film Stills” which is one of her most famous photography pieces. Most of her best-known work are in black and white photographs but it has challenged stereotypes that where supported by the media. Then in the 1980s she started to use colour film and large prints and mainly focused on the facial expressions of the person as it tells more of a story and on the lighting in the images as depending on the light it can give different

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