Rear Screen Projections

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"Rear Screen Projections" is a photographic series by Cindy Sherman in which she stages herself against cinematic backdrops to explore identity, artifice, and the constructed nature of female representation.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf artwork
photographic series
artForm photography
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Cindy Sherman NERFINISHED
creatorRole director of staged scenes
photographer
depicts cinematic backdrops
staged scenes
women
explores cinematic visual language
female representation in media
illusion and reality in photography
performance of identity
stereotypical femininity
genre conceptual photography
fine art photography
hasInfluenceOn contemporary photographic practice
discourse on gender and representation in art
hasPart individual photographic prints
hasTheme cinema
constructed femininity
role-playing
spectatorship
inSeriesWith Centerfolds NERFINISHED
Untitled Film Stills NERFINISHED
language visual
mainSubject artifice
cinematic stereotypes
constructed nature of representation
female identity
self-portraiture
movement feminist art
postmodern art
notableFor appropriation of film aesthetics
artist playing multiple roles
critical examination of the gaze
use of cinematic lighting and framing
partOf Cindy Sherman’s body of work
technique self-portrait performance
staged photography
use of rear screen projection
usesMedium color photography
photographic print

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Cindy Sherman notableWork Rear Screen Projections