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Title:

Cindy Sherman, Imitation of life / Philipp Kaiser, Sofia Coppola, Joanne Heyler ; [editor, Philipp Kaiser].

Author:

Sherman, Cindy photographer, interviewee.

Kaiser, Philipp, 1972- editor, author.

Coppola, Sofia, 1971- interviewer.

Heyler, Joanne writer of introduction.

Broad (Art museum : Los Angeles, Calif.), host institution.

ISBN:

9783791355566

Personal Author:

Sherman, Cindy photographer, interviewee.

Physical Description:

159 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 29 cm

Content Type:

text

Media Type (RDA):

unmediated

Carrier Type:

volume

General Note:

The exhibition Cindy Sherman: Imitation of Life was organized by The Broad, Los Angeles, and curated by Philipp Kaiser; exhibition dates: June 11, 2016 to October 2, 2016."

Contents:

Introduction / Imitations of life; Appropriation, the cinematic impulse, and beyond / Plates -- A whole theater; A conversation / Works in the Broad collection and exhibition checklist.

Personal Subject:

Sherman, Cindy-Exhibitions.

Corporate Subject:

Broad (Art museum : Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Photograph collections.

Subject Term:

Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions.

Portrait photography -- Exhibitions.

Costume -- Pictorial works -- Exhibitions.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Illustrated works.

Added Author:

Kaiser, Philipp, 1972-

Coppola, Sofia, 1971-

Heyler, Joanne

Added Corporate Author:

Broad (Art museum : Los Angeles, Calif.),

Format:

Books

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This magnificent book encompasses the full scope of Cindy Sherman's career, with a special focus on the cinematic quality of her oeuvre. Known for slipping seamlessly behind the rotating masks of fairy tale characters, centerfold models, historical figures, and clowns, Cindy Sherman tackles popular tropes in her photographs and brilliantly dismantles the stereotypes surrounding the roles she embodies. Featuring illustrations that draw from the Broad collection, the world's largest collection of Sherman's photography, as well as other sources, this book traces Sherman's most important works from 1977 to the present. Curator Philipp Kaiser, taking his cue from Sherman's choice to title the book and exhibition after Douglas Sirk's 1959 film Imitation of Life , analyzes Sherman's work from the standpoint of cinema and traces how such a reading can impact the critical discourse around her photographs. The book also features a fascinating conversation between director Sofia Coppola and Cindy Sherman, which centers on Sherman's use of filmic techniques to examine women's roles and identities across a wide array of popular representations. This generously illustrated volume offers readers an intriguing new perspective from which to understand one of today's most important photographers.

Author Notes

Philipp Kaiser is a Los Angeles based curator. He is the former Director of the Museum Ludwig, Cologne and Senior Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

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The first special exhibition at The Broad, a gallery that opened last year in Los Angeles, is Cindy Sherman: Imitation of Life, chronicled in this catalog of photographs spanning 1975 to the present, largely drawn from Eli and Edythe Broad's collection. Guest curator Philipp Kaiser's (formerly Museum Ludwig, Cologne, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles) introductory essay explores cinematic impulses in Sherman's successive "Untitled" series: the various ways her images both imply narrative (as in the stills from imaginary films) and imitate pop-culture notions of feminine identity. Screenwriter/actress/director -Sofia -Coppola contributes a casual conversation between herself and Sherman about working methods and the recurring tension between beauty and artifice. The work concludes with an exhibition checklist and a list of Sherman's works in the Broad collection. Other weighty surveys of the artist's shape-shifting portraits exist (including exhibition catalogs from Jeu de Paume, 2006, and MoMA, 2012), but this show's perspective originates from the photographer herself as well as the Broads' engagement with the pieces over three decades of collecting. VERDICT Notable for its full-page, full-color images, this volume pays a fittingly cinematic L.A. homage to the influential career of a major artist.-Lindsay King, Yale Univ. Libs, New Haven, CT © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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