Title: Cindy Sherman
Content:  In the early 1990s, Sherman worked with Minneapolis band Babes in Toyland, providing photographs for covers for the albums Fontanelle and Painkillers, creating a stage backdrop used in live concerts, and acting in the promotional video for the song "Bruise Violet." She also worked as a film director. Sherman moved from photographs to film with her movie Office Killer in 1997, starring Jeanne Tripplehorn, Molly Ringwald and Carol Kane. Dorine, played by Carol Kane, is a stand-in for Sherman. They have a shared interest in arranging bodies, like a puppeteer, in diorama-like scenes. According to author Dahlia Schweitzer, Office Killer is full of unexpected 
Title: Cindy Sherman
Content:  Cynthia Morris Sherman (born January 19, 1954) is an American artist whose work consists primarily of photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as various imagined characters. Her breakthrough work is often considered to be the collected "Untitled Film Stills", a series of 70 black-and-white photographs of herself evoking typical women roles in performance media (especially arthouse films and popular B-movies). In the 1980s, Sherman used color film and large prints, and focused more on costume, lighting and facial expression. In 1995, Sherman was the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2013 she received an honorary doctorate degree from the Royal College of Art, London.
Title: Cindy (given name)
Content:  and television actress ; Cindy Sanyu (born 1985), Ugandan musician ; Cindy Sheehan (born 1957), American anti-war activist ; Cindy Shelley (born 1960), British actress ; Cindy Sherman (born 1954), American photographer and film director ; Cindy Silvestre (born 1993), a French kickboxer ; Cindy Taylor (born 1977), Paraguayan model and TV host ; Cindy Valentine, Italian born Canadian singer and actress ; Cindy Vela (born 1979), American actress, model, and saxophonist ; Cindy Walker (1918–2006), American songwriter, singer and dancer ; Cindy Whitehead (born 1962), American skateboarder ; Cindy Williams (born 1947), American actress ; Cindy Wilson (born 1957), American singer with The B-52s ; Cindy Yen (born 1986), Taiwanese actress 
Title: Cindy Sherman
Content:  In Sherman's Imitation of Life series of 2016 she poses, in vintage costume and theatrical makeup, as a variety of ageing actress-like women. When writing about Sherman's "Film Stills" in the journal October, the scholar Douglas Crimp states that Sherman's work is "a hybrid of photography and performance art that reveals femininity to be an effect of representation." However, Sherman does not consider her work or herself to be feminist, stating "The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff." Many scholars emphasize the relationship Cindy Sherman's work has with the concept of the gaze. In particular, scholars like Laura 
Title: Cindy Sherman
Content:  Sherman uses prosthetic limbs and mannequins to create her Sex Pictures series (1992). Hal Foster, an American art critic, describes Sherman's Sex Pictures in his article Obscene, Abject, Traumatic as “[i]n this scheme of things the impulse to erode the subject and to tear at the screen has driven Sherman […] to her recent work, where it is obliterated by the gaze.” Moreover, Abigail Solomon- Godeau, a photo critic who taught art history at the University of California, illustrates Sherman's work in Suitable for Framing: The Critical Recasting of Cindy Sherman. Solomon-Godeau writes, “[Sherman's] pictures have struck many viewers as centrally concerned with the problematics of femininity (as role, as image, as spectacle); more 
Title: Cindy Sherman
Content:  Sherman works in series, typically photographing herself in a range of costumes. To create her photographs, Sherman shoots alone in her studio, assuming multiple roles as author, director, make-up artist, hairstylist, wardrobe mistress, and model.
Title: Cindy Sherman
Content:  Sherman's work is often credited as a major influence for contemporary portrait photographers. One such photographer is Ryan Trecartin, who manipulates themes of identity in his videos and photography. Her influence stretches to artists in other art mediums, including painter Lisa Yuskavage, visual artist Jillian Mayer, and performance artist Tracey Ullman. In April 2014, actor and artist James Franco exhibited a series of photographs at the Pace Gallery called New Film Stills, in which Franco restaged twenty-nine images from Sherman's Untitled Film Stills. The exhibit garnered mainly negative reviews, calling Franco's appropriations 'sophomoric,' 'sexist,' and embarrassingly clueless.'
Title: Cindy Sherman
Content:  Sherman was born on January 19, 1954, in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, the youngest of the five children of Dorothy and Charles Sherman. Shortly after her birth, her family moved to the township of Huntington, Long Island. Her father worked as an engineer for Grumman Aircraft. Her mother taught reading to children with learning difficulties. Sherman has described her mother as good to a fault, and her father as strict and cruel. In 1972, Sherman enrolled in the visual arts department at Buffalo State College, where she began painting. During this time, she began to explore the ideas which became a hallmark of her work: She dressed herself as 
Title: Cindy: The Doll Is Mine
Content: Asia Argento as Cindy Sherman / The model 
Title: Cindy Sherman
Content: Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman. MIT Press, 1999. Edited by Shelley Rice. ISBN: 0-262-68106-4. ; Essential, The: Cindy Sherman. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1999. ISBN: 0-8109-5808-2. ; Cindy Sherman: Retrospective (Paperback). Thames & Hudson, 2000. By Amanda Cruz and Elizabeth A. T. Smith. ISBN: 0-500-27987-X. ; In Real Life: Six Women Photographers. Holiday House, 2000. By Leslie Sills, et al. ISBN: 0-8234-1498-1. ; Early Work of Cindy Sherman. Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 2001 ISBN: 0-9654020-3-7. ; Cindy Sherman: Photographic Works 1975-1995 (Paperback). Schirmer/Mosel, 2002. By Elisabeth Bronfen, et al. ISBN: 3-88814-809-X. ; Cindy Sherman: The Complete Untitled Film Stills. Museum of Modern Art, 2003. ISBN: 0-87070-507-5. ; Cindy Sherman: Centerfolds. Skarstedt Fine Art, 2004. ISBN: 0-9709090-2-0. ; Cindy Sherman: Working Girl. St. Louis, Missouri: Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2006. ISBN: 978-0-9712195-8-8. ; Cindy Sherman. The MIT Press, 2006. Edited by Johanna Burton. ISBN: 0-262-52463-5. ; Cindy Sherman: A Play of Selves. Hatje Cantz, 2007. ISBN: 978-3-7757-1942-1. ; Cindy Sherman. Museum of Modern Art, 2012. ISBN: 0870708120. ; Cindy Sherman: Untitled Horrors. Hatje Cantz, 2013. ISBN: 978-3-7757-3487-5. ; Cindy Sherman's Office Killer: Another Kind of Monster. Intellect Books, 2014. By Dahlia Schweitzer. ISBN: 1841507075. 

Question: what is cindy sherman known for?
Answer: Photographer.