Working Girl

Le livre

When curators at Saint Louiss Contemporary Art Museum asked Cindy Sherman whether there was a moment in her career whose resonance might be underappreciated, one around which she might like to develop an exhibit and a book, she selected her earliest adult creative years, beginning while she was still a student at Buffalo State College in the mid-1970s.Working Girlis full of rarely seen pieces, and it features, for the first time, documentation of and stills from Shermans 1975 animated shortDoll Clothes,which is among the pieces that bring Shermans early exploration of gender and identity into focus. The mostly small-scale work, including many early black-and-white, hand-colored, and sepia-toned photographs, is culled primarily from the artists family members collections and her own, and includes the pieces that laid the groundwork for her first major success, the acclaimedFilm Stillsseries.Working Girlis a unique glimpse into the early development of Shermans artistic practice, and into the genesis of her inimitable substance and style. It illuminates her conceptual approach to photography and foretells the career that would be launched in the late 1970s, positioning her as one of the most significant artists of our time.