William J. Simmons on Cindy Sherman

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Behind the lens: women in photography 📷

What can a woman do with a camera? That's the question Frances Benjamin Johnston, one of the first American women photographers, asked in 1897. Often photographed, women were also on the other side of the lens. Photography became for women a way of empowerment and to free themselves from the male gaze. Explore the pictures took by Dora Maar, Lee Miller, Julia Margaret Cameron or Zanele Muholi. And discover what a woman with a camera can do! Taking pictures: a feminist commitment!

44:12 By: The Great Women Artists

In episode 76 of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel interviews William J Simmons on the legendary CINDY SHERMAN!!

Emerging in the late 1970s and early 1980s with the “Pictures Generation”, Cindy Sherman, one of the greatest living artists, once said, “through a photograph you can make people believe anything”. Transforming herself into unsettlingly convincing identities evocative of Hitchcock films, horror movies, clowns, housewives, supermodels, or valley girls, Sherman’s works so brilliantly hold a mirror up to our complicated and warped society. She explores our ever-changing, superficial, abject, aspirational or society obsessed identities, of which she has said “mask the life that we put on daily”.

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