Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman is an artist who's work consists of creating new identities and photographing them. She dresses up as different people and each one has a different feel, personality, and look. Through these different personas Sherman can create almost any identity. She creates a fantasy life with them and depicts the characters to have much more interesting lives outside the frame of the photograph.

Cindy Sherman's work fascinates me because she does such an incredible job of really making each character become its own. You would think that an artist that dresses up each time she does a project would always still look somewhat like her. She truly transforms into each character and I think that is what speaks to me as an artist. Besides creating visually interesting images, Sherman makes the viewer want to get to know these people or hear their story. Each character has a unique story waiting to be told and that is what makes her art so compelling.

Ways of Seeing

The Ways of Seeing Documentary is talking about the fact that advertisements make one believe that  buy purchasing something they will become richer. That ads portray people as happier, skinnier, prettier, better, etc. to get you to buy them. They try to make the consumer believe that their products will benefit their life in multiple aspects.

The Ways of Seeing Documentary was interesting to me because it pointed out the skewed perception society has. That people really do think that buying things will create this different image for them. Our society revolves around consumerism and the fact that will feel the need to buy more things to fill voids in our lives.