Cindy Sherman first won artistic recognition for her Untitled Film Stills (1977-80)—a series of 69 enigmatic black-and-white self-portraits emulating movie publicity shots from the 1940s and 50s. Over the last 30 years she has risen to become the most widely known and financially successful art photographer in the United States. Her latest photographs are large color prints of masks and dolls, as well as detailed arrangements of dummies, body parts and other inanimate objects. Source

The Untitled Film Stills were a group of 69 pictures taken between 1977 and 1980. In the series, Sherman portrays stereotyped female roles in B-movies of the 1950's. The Centerfold or Horizontals series began when the publication ArtForum commissioned Cindy Sherman to create a portfolio of images for display in the magazine. The Fashion series first began in 1983 when Interview Magazine commissioned Sherman to create a portfolio of fashion images for the magazine. The 1986-1989 Disasters series shows Sherman commenting on the chaos and disorder of the world around us. In the series, Sherman uses the body as a metaphor for society.

I have yet to see her film 1998 film debut, Office Killer, but it looks interesting and like the type of film you either love or viciously hate.

"These are pictures of emotions personified, entirely of themselves with their own presence - not of me. When I prepare each character I have to consider what I'm working against; that people are going to look under the make-up and wigs for that common denominator, the recognizable. I'm trying to make other people recognize something of themselves rather than me."

--Cindy Sherman, 'Untitled' Statement

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