Untitled, 2016 © Cindy Sherman, Courtesy the artist and Metro Pictures There might be more anecdotes about Cindy Sherman than there are about any …
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10 Photographers Who’ve Mastered the Art of Playing Dress-Up
Starting with Cindy Sherman, the master of the genre, we take a look at ten artists bringing fictional characters to life through self-portraiture. Juno Calypso mutates into a horrifying caricature of feminine angst and exhaustion, and Dita Pepe imagines her life with different men, some of them strangers. Starting at age 13, Samuel Fosso has used different costumes, poses, and backdrops to create one-of-a-kind self-portraits. As he puts it, "I borrow an identity."
Samuel Fosso 70s series, by Samuel Fosso, c. 1976/1977 At the tender age of 13, Samuel Fosso set up Studio Photo Nationale, and began his career as a …
Omar Victor Diop, Don Miguel de Castro, Emissary of Congo (c. 1643-50) From the series: Project Diaspora 2014 Pigment inkjet print on Harman Hahnemuhle …
Who do you want to be? Or, more accurately, who could you have been? Czech photographer Dita Pepe takes these musings quite literally, re-imaging her …
Nine years ago, American photographer Haley Morris-Cafiero embarked on a social experiment. She set up a camera on a tripod in a busy public area – …
Barneys $1,790.00 When photographer James Pomerantz turned 40 in January of this year, he took a moment to reflect on success and what it meant. As the …
Photographer Nina Röder steps into the clothes and mindset of her matriarchal history in the series Mutter Schuhe (Mother’s Shoes). The work is a …
After Vermeer Stages is the title of a self-portrait project by American photographer Laura Hofstadter. After experimenting with a large format camera …
