Centerfolds (In shrink-wrap)

Cindy Sherman
Centerfolds (In shrink-wrap)

Photographs: Cindy Sherman

Publisher: Skarstedt Fine Art

44 pages

Year: 2003

Comments: Hardcover, 15 x 29,7 cm, color photographs. First edition of 1850. Still in shrink wrap (it is a little torn). There is also a scratch on the dust jacket.

escribed by one critic as "embarrassingly intimate," Cindy Sherman's Centerfolds, a series of twelve 2 x 4 foot images shot in 1981 for an Artforum commission, take the horizontal centerfold as their physical and conceptual framework. Though the images were never run in the magazine--the editor was concerned that they would be misunderstood--they remain some of the most affecting of Sherman's constructed pictures. In them, Sherman's vaguely adolescent female characters fill up the frame with an ambiguous, uncomfortably close presence, their plaid kilts, wet t-shirts, matted hair, disheveled nightgowns, and pretty gingham dresses keeping them in your face but unavailable, emotionally suggestive but ambivalently distanced. This handsome, compact volume, the first to include all twelve of the Centerfold images, is run through with an informative, involved text by Lisa Phillips, Head Curator of the New Museum and a long-time supporter of Sherman's work.

(From the publisher)

It was published on the occosion of the exhibition 'Centerfolds 1981', May 10 - June 14. 2003 at Skarstedt Fine Art, New York