CINDY SHERMAN/ CENTERFOLD UNTITLED 96

In 1981 Cindy Sherman (born 1954) was commissioned to contribute a special project to Artforum magazine. Given two facing pages, she chose to explore the pornographic centerfold, creating 12 large-scale horizontal images of herself appearing as various young women , often reclining, in private, melancholic moments of reverie. As Sherman explained, I wanted a man opening up the magazine to sudd enly look at it in expectation of something lascivious and then feel like the violator that they would be.Shermans Centerfolds wer e so provoc...[Read more]