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Cindy Sherman  born 1954

Cindy Sherman from Bus Riders, Untitled 1976, printed 2000
© Cindy Sherman

from Bus Riders (P78495-P78508; P78535; complete)

Untitled  1976, printed 2000

Photograph on paper
image: 189 x 127 mm
on paper, print

Purchased with funds provided by the American Fund for the Tate Gallery 2001

P78495

Cindy Sherman’s Bus Riders 1976/2000 are a series of photographs that feature the artist as a variety of meticulously observed characters. The photographs were shot in 1976 but not printed or exhibited until 2000 and are among the artist’s earliest work. Sherman uses elaborate costumes and make up to transform her identity for each image, but is photographed in a sparse, obviously staged setting with a wooden chair standing in for the bus seat.

 (From the display caption July 2008)