{"id":92454,"date":"2016-08-24T14:01:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T13:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amateurphotographer.co.uk\/?p=92454"},"modified":"2016-08-17T14:01:44","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T13:01:44","slug":"book-review-cindy-sherman-imitation-life-philipp-kaiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/book_reviews\/book-review-cindy-sherman-imitation-life-philipp-kaiser\/","title":{"rendered":"Book review: Cindy Sherman: Imitation of Life by Philipp Kaiser"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div id=&quot;attachment_92455&quot;  class=\"c-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 620px\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92455\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/sherman70.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled #70, 1980. This image formed part of Sherman\u2019s early \u2018colour experiments\u2019 complete with back projection\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/08\/sherman70.jpg 600w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/08\/sherman70.jpg?resize=300,200 300w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/08\/sherman70.jpg?resize=562,375 562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\t\t\t<p class=\"c-caption__text\">Untitled #70, 1980. This image formed part of Sherman\u2019s early \u2018colour experiments\u2019 complete with back projection<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<p>It\u2019s been nearly 40 years since Cindy Sherman started throwing on wigs, dresses, clown make-up and bodily prosthesis, and recording the variously glamorous and grotesque results through her camera lens.<\/p>\n<p>Sherman\u2019s work has found a home under a variety of banners: feminist, postmodern, or deconstructionist. Yet none of them seem quite capable of capturing the sense of her work. It\u2019s a body of images that seems uneasy when contained within strict parameters.<\/p>\n<p>This could well be a result of the artist\u2019s own elusiveness. In interview after interview she sidesteps questions about the work\u2019s theoretical underpinnings. As a result, the texts we have come largely from gallery owners, photography writers and academics, all of whom bring their own agenda to the table.<\/p>\n<p>This book is no different. The intriguing introduction by Philipp Kaiser attempts to navigate the themes and ideas he sees within the work while also admitting that perhaps not all these ideas match the texts that have preceded it. With Sherman\u2019s work it\u2019s not enough to say, for example, that the images are feminist in context. Rather, we have to refer to the various \u2018feminisms\u2019 that have attempted to draw out meaning.<\/p>\n<p>But this is not to say that Sherman\u2019s work is without meaning \u2013 it certainly has several things to say. It\u2019s simply that the truth of it may not necessarily be as complicated as some would like to believe. That\u2019s not an insult to the work. I have a real feeling it\u2019s something Sherman herself would agree with.<\/p>\n\t\t<div id=&quot;attachment_92459&quot;  class=\"c-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 620px\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92459\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/cindy_sherman_untitled_film_still_47.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled Film Still #47, 1979. This is one of Sherman\u2019s early investigations into female tropes and stereotypes\" width=\"600\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/08\/cindy_sherman_untitled_film_still_47.jpg 600w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/08\/cindy_sherman_untitled_film_still_47.jpg?resize=300,239 300w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/08\/cindy_sherman_untitled_film_still_47.jpg?resize=502,400 502w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/08\/cindy_sherman_untitled_film_still_47.jpg?resize=562,448 562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\t\t\t<p class=\"c-caption__text\">Untitled Film Still #47, 1979. This is one of Sherman\u2019s early investigations into female tropes and stereotypes<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<h2>Simulation and cinema<\/h2>\n\t\t<div id=&quot;attachment_92458&quot;  class=\"c-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 620px\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-92458\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/cindy_sherman_untitled_92.jpg\" alt=\"Untitled #92, 1981\" width=\"600\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/08\/cindy_sherman_untitled_92.jpg 600w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/08\/cindy_sherman_untitled_92.jpg?resize=300,151 300w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/08\/cindy_sherman_untitled_92.jpg?resize=562,283 562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\t\t\t<p class=\"c-caption__text\">Untitled #92, 1981<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<p>The title of the book, Imitation of Life, is said perhaps with some sense of irony. Sherman\u2019s images are, in part, imitations of the characters, tropes and archetypes of the kinds of women we find in cinema and literature, many are which are simply male ideals of how women should appear. As many have noted, she is not imitating women, but rather images of women. Ideas such as the \u2018male gaze\u2019 and voyeurism are apparent in these early works, drawing as Sherman does from the publicity stills of old B-movies and Hitchcockian aesthetics.<\/p>\n<p>The references to Alfred Hitchcock are important, not because she draws from the themes of the filmmaker\u2019s oeuvre but because of the way she appropriates the viewer\u2019s gaze, much in the way he did. It\u2019s also important because we see how genuinely fascinated Sherman is with the field of cinema. Her \u2018Untitled Film Stills\u2019 series is a wonderful tribute and deconstruction of cinematic tropes. Look further into her work and you can spot her love of filmmakers such as Douglas Sirk and Sam Fuller.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of imitation was something Sherman actually hit upon in her younger years as a painter. She found she had a natural talent for copying and it\u2019s clearly a seed that infects much of her work as a photographer.<\/p>\n<p>Imitation and simulation have a strong currency in the fields of academic studies, particularly in the work of Jean Baudrillard, and here we see those ideas transposed to Sherman\u2019s images. But it\u2019s a kind of imitation where we see the joins. Sherman\u2019s work never attempts to reproduce exactly.<\/p>\n<p>In many of the images we can identify the clearly constructed and considered sets, particularly when it comes to her \u2018experiments in colour\u2019, the images that make use of hokey back-projections. While these early colour images are often reproduced, it\u2019s worth noting that they presented Sherman with her biggest technical challenge, especially considering how easy it was to wash out the projections with studio lighting.<\/p>\n<p>Later, we see Sherman tackling women from history and women of contemporary society. The images are equally affecting and equally knowingly artificial. But for all the intertextuality, politics and deep themes, there is a level that can often get drowned out in the impenetrable reverie of the chin-stroking cognoscenti.<\/p>\n<p>As Elizabeth Roberts, editor of Black+White Photography magazine noted in her review of this title, these images are fun and they are funny. Sherman knows how absurd and grotesque these images are. This is, after all, the photographer who appeared as a semi-parody of herself in John Waters\u2019 film Pecker.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018When I was in school, I was getting disgusted with the idea of art being so religious and sacred,\u2019 Sherman said once, \u2018so I wanted to make something people could relate to without people having read a book about it first. So that anybody on the street could appreciate it\u2026 That\u2019s why I wanted to imitate something out of culture, and also make fun of culture as I was doing it.\u2019 That sort of sums it up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Score: 5 out of 5<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-92457\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Cover.jpg\" alt=\"Cover\" width=\"300\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/08\/Cover.jpg 600w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/08\/Cover.jpg?resize=300,369 300w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/08\/Cover.jpg?resize=325,400 325w, https:\/\/other.kelsey.host\/amateurphotographer\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2016\/08\/Cover.jpg?resize=562,691 562w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\n<p>Published by Prestel<br \/>\nPrice \u00a335, 160 pages, hardback<br \/>\nISBN 978-3-79135-556-6<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new volume collects the images of Cindy Sherman and reveals a photographer fascinated by simulation and the cinematic impulse. 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