Sentences with phrase «centerfold portraits»

Cindy Sherman began her classic Film Stills series in 1977; and since then has photographed herself in a variety of roles, including centerfold portraits, history portraits, society portraits and variety of clowns.

With his subsequent usher textbooks, autobiography (There Is life Beyond Name Tags, Dude Books, 2001), magazine (Badge and Bulletin, the only ushering magazine including a centerfold portrait) and cultlike following, Glibface had almost singlehandedly brought ushering into the sunlight of ecclesiastical celebrity ~ To his fame are credited such innovative strategies as parhug valets; tour guides, computerized seating readouts - for latecomers, and Roy Dude University's School of Usherology.

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Even now she characterizes five provocative «centerfolds» she made of herself in 2002 not as self - portraits but as documents of live performances.

But it wasn't until 1981, when she made her «Centerfolds,» a series of portraits inspired by photographs in Playboy — but with the women clothed and conveying a complicated range of emotions — that her career really took off.

Featuring more than two dozen works spanning 30 years, Cindy Sherman: Once Upon a Time, 1981 — 2011 at Mnuchin Gallery, New York, takes as its focus three of the artist's most acclaimed series: the Centerfolds, the History Portraits, and the Society Portraits.

Once Upon a Time at Mnuchin Gallery, New York, showcases a number of works that span 30 years, taken from such acclaimed series as the Centerfolds, the History Portraits and the Society Portraits.

A selection of ambitious and celebrated works will be highlighted, including a complete set of the seminal Untitled Film Stills (1977 - 80) and a complete group of her 12 centerfolds (1981), and selections from major series such as fairy tales / mythology (1985), history portraits (1988 - 90), sex pictures (1992), headshots (2000), clowns (2002 - 04), fashion (1983 - 84, 1993 - 94, 2007 - 08), and society portraits (2008).

All are pulled from three different series: «Society Portraits» (Sherman as UES women battling age with plastic surgery), the «History Portraits» (Sherman as Renaissance and Rococo figures) and the seminal «Centerfolds» series (Sherman as a modern version of the reclining woman but all lost in private moments as opposed to, you know, tugging at a bikini string).

Featuring more than two dozen works spanning 30 years, the exhibition will focus on three of Sherman's most acclaimed series - the «Centerfolds,» the «History Portraits» and the «Society Portraits.»

Following that, she co-curated a survey of Cindy Sherman's most acclaimed series, spanning 30 years of Centerfolds, History Portraits and Society Portraits, with Philippe Ségalot.