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— The Savannah College of Art and Design

Cynthia Morris Sherman was born in 1954 in Glen Ridge, N.J. In images in which makeup, costumes, wigs, and the like allow her to take on a variety of guises and roles, Sherman transforms still photography into performance art to explore traditional and pop-cultural myths of femininity. [more]