{"id":10223,"date":"2025-09-24T23:35:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/795587884454395904-2\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T04:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T21:55:08","slug":"795587884454395904-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donotdestroy.com\/index\/795587884454395904-2\/","title":{"rendered":"795587884454395904"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                               <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr\/media\/156106400692_0.jpg\"\/>\n                           <\/p>\n<p>\n                               <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr\/media\/156106400692_1.jpg\"\/>\n                           <\/p>\n<p>\n                               <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr\/media\/156106400692_2.jpg\"\/>\n                           <\/p>\n<p>\n                               <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr\/media\/156106400692_3.jpg\"\/>\n                           <\/p>\n<p>\n                               <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr\/media\/156106400692_4.jpg\"\/>\n                           <\/p>\n<p>\n                               <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr\/media\/156106400692_5.jpg\"\/>\n                           <\/p>\n<p>\n                               <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr\/media\/156106400692_6.jpg\"\/>\n                           <\/p>\n<p>\n                               <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr\/media\/156106400692_7.jpg\"\/>\n                           <\/p>\n<p>\n                               <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr\/media\/156106400692_8.jpg\"\/>\n                           <\/p>\n<p>\n                               <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr\/media\/156106400692_9.jpg\"\/>\n                           <\/p>\n<div class=\"caption\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/donotdestroy.tumblr.com\/post\/156106400692\/in-fall-1977-sherman-began-making-pictures-that\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">donotdestroy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In fall 1977, Sherman began making pictures that would eventually become her groundbreaking \u201cUntitled Film Stills.\u201d Over three years, the series grew to comprise a total of seventy black-and-white photographs. Taken as a whole, the \u201cUntitled Film Stills\u201d\u2014resembling publicity pictures made on movie sets\u2014read like an encyclopedic roster of stereotypical female roles inspired by 1950s and 1960s Hollywood, film noir, B movies, and European art-house films. But while the characters and scenarios may seem familiar, Sherman\u2019s \u201cStills\u201d are entirely fictitious; they represent clich\u00e9s (career girl, bombshell, girl on the run, vamp, housewife, and so on) that are deeply embedded in the cultural imagination. While the pictures can be appreciated individually, much of their significance comes in the endless variation of identities from one photograph to the next. As a group they explore the complexity of representation in a world saturated with images, and refer to the cultural filter of images (moving and still) through which we see the world.<\/p>\n<p>Untitled Film Stills, 1977 by Cindy Sherman<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>donotdestroy: In fall 1977, Sherman began making pictures that would &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12749],"tags":[1240,582,655,793,1386,60,5724,2096,3081,4930,86,622,2320,7021,5117,2404,880,6897,4311,1775,3,5794,2458],"class_list":["post-10223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tumblr","tag-american-apparel","tag-art","tag-artist","tag-black-and-white","tag-bw","tag-chick-of-the-day","tag-cindy-sherman","tag-conceptual-art","tag-culture","tag-feminism","tag-film","tag-hollywood","tag-idea","tag-image","tag-master","tag-modern-art","tag-movie","tag-photographer","tag-phoyography","tag-portrait","tag-quote-of-the-day","tag-see","tag-society"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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