Nobody’s Here but Me. Cindy Sherman - ACE285.5

Judith Williamson, Writer, says she doesn’t think of Sherman as a feminist or a non-feminist artist. As a feminist writer, she’s interested in the ideas she finds in Sherman’s work about popular culture and femininity, though she may not like all the scenarios portrayed. More Disaster. Excerpt from Night of the Living Dead (1968); Sherman in video shop. She says that films are probably her biggest influence, and that she likes horror films which she finds "calming" as they can help people come to terms with ideas of violence and death. Excerpt from Halloween (1978). Various photographs of this kind. Baby sleeping. Images of monsters. Sherman’s VO talking about always having light in her room when a child. More photographs; Sherman examining her collection of "fake body parts". Her VO talking about how this collection started and expanded. Photographs. Sherman talking about the use of fake breasts and buttocks in work which she wanted to make very challenging. Longo, talking about a period in the 1980s when he believes that Sherman reacted with deliberate aggression against the "boys club" of well-supported popular male artists by attempting to make her work deliberately difficult; he refers to the "vomit" pictures that came after the horror film images. Some of these photographs.