Cindy Sherman is a contemporary photographer who critiques social issues through her work. Her main focus is how women are over sexualised in the media and her work over exaggerates their portrayal to make it apparent to the viewer. This particular piece is another of Sherman’s ‘over exaggerated’ portrayals of women in the media. The use of overdone makeup, orange skin and clothing choices reflects Sherman’s personal opinion on how women are over sexualised and portrayed as seductresses in mass media and how this blurs the sense of individuality and identity for a woman is manipulated by society. The idea of gender roles in this piece is that women are not viewed as people but as an object. The image recreates how the use of makeup, clothes,
