Cindy Sherman Analysis

Cindy Sherman was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey in 1954. Soon after she was born, her family moved to Huntington, Long Island. Her father worked as engineer while her mother was a teacher for children who have trouble learning and reading. Cindy Sherman first became interested in the visual arts at Buffalo State College and started her painting career. She decided that painting was not her technique so she moved into photography since the limitations of painting were holding her back. Cindy states, " I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.". She later on failed her one photography class in her first year of school then took it again with Barbara Jo Revelle who introduced Cindy to conceptual art and other contemporary forms of art. Robert Longo whom she …show more content…
With Longo's encouragement, she created "Hallwalls" which is an arts center that had the content of the city of Buffalo in the 1970's. Other than "Hallwalls", Cindy became familiar with the Albright-Knox Art Gallery which held contemporary art, Media Studios Buffalo, the Center For Exploratory and Perceptual Arts and Artpark in Lewiston, New York. Cindy Sherman is known for photographing herself in costumes fit for the scenery she is trying to create. She presents herself by being her own author, director, make-up artist, hair stylist and costume designer.

"Bus Riders"(1976) is one of many photographic sets of Cindy Sherman. The "Bus Riders" is a handful of pictures that contain the artist (Cindy Sherman) dressed as different characters to draw attention to the acts of reality. This is one example of