Untitled #75

  • 1980
  • Cindy Sherman
  • Chromogenic color print
  • 50,8 x 61,0 cm
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First used in the 1930s, rear projection is a special cinematic effect, used in place of a set: actors play in front of a screen in which a scene, often in motion, is projected from behind. Hitchcock was very fond of this artifice. Immediately after her Untitled Film Stills, Sherman drew inspiration from this technique to continue her dialogue with cinema. Paradoxically, the deliberate exposure of a trick—with a simple slide— produces a powerful cinematic effect.

© 2026 Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman

Born in 1954, and living and working in New York, Cindy Sherman has, since the late 1970s, developed a body of work devoted to staging her own persona – work whose success and fame have extended far beyond the realm of art itself. Paradoxically, it is by disappearing behind masks and costumes, make-up and special effects that Sherman has become an icon, challenging the very concept of the portrait.
Cindy Sherman associates the characters in her photographs with roles that she embodies.

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