Cindy Sherman - she's most widely known for her Untitled Film Stills, in which she photographs herself portraying various female stereotypes from 50's B-list Hollywood movies. However I find her later work more interesting, such as these also Untitled images which have become known as 'Sex Pictures'. Sherman wanted to explore how women are depicted in pornography, how they are objectified and placed on screen. By replacing women with these prosthetic dummies and body parts the images are no less shocking but instead they disgust the viewer - a conflict with the idea of pornography which needs to hold a persons gaze in order to succeed.
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