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   I've heard about Cindy Sherman before but never really took the time to look or understand her work. Her ability to disguise herself through self portraits is to focus on the expected social gender role and stereotypes. In the year 1977, she began to work on " Untitled Film Stills". A series of  photographs in black and white with a variety of personalities. Each photograph supports Cindy's stand with cultural stereotypes as her photographs have influenced self portraits in an extreme way.
   The most intriguing thing to me about Cindy Sherman is her want of expression. Being a young adult and human being in general, we all look for ways of self expression as a relief of what we are feeling inside. Cindy uses her ideas and creates art by an image for her viewers to get an understanding of what her message is with each photograph. By reinventing herself with simple pictures it is her way of creating a new identity for herself. 
   The image that moved me was one of the Untitled Film Still. It is a photograph I find both simple but elegant. With heels and a some what provocative outfit as she gazes out of the window. I get two different perspectives from this photograph such as a woman who is confident vs. a woman who feels more like herself behind closed doors. I can relate in a way that I am who I am with everyone at any time but there is certain things about myself that many people don't know. Not only for privacy purposes but because there are parts of me I only want to know about. Gazing the way she is out the window also relates to me as to as looking at the world from afar. Sometimes society can get overwhelming by the expectations expected as a female and what are do's and don'ts. Creating a new identity for one self can help reinvent who you are or want to be.

https://www.biography.com/people/cindy-sherman-39916