Self-Portraiture
Masquerade: Role Playing in Self-Portraiture — Photographs from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection
Cindy Sherman (United States, b. 1954), Untitled Film Still #5 [Woman opening letter], 1977, gelatin-silver print,6 3/4 x 9 1/2 in., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, © Cindy Sherman.
The performance aspect of self-portraiture takes on a slightly different cast when the person portrayed is playing a role, in disguise, or otherwise fictionalized. Ultimately of course, every self-portrait is a fiction, a portrait of someone else, and an arena in which another is confronted or an alter-ego encountered.Robert Sobieszek in “Other Selves in Photographic Self-Portraiture,” The Camera I.
That “slightly different cast,” the pretending, the partial or complete transformation of a person, becomes a visual game when applied to photographic self-portraiture. We want to see the photographer behind the mask, the make-up, the uniform or costume … the truth of the medium behind the fiction of the situation. When does the masquerade tell another kind of truth?
Consisting of some thirty works drawn from LACMA’s permanent collection, Masquerade: Role Playing in Self-Portraiture will explore the way in which photographers – costumed, masked, wigged, made-up or transformed through technique or situation – present their fictional, or “Other Selves.”
Photographers whose work will be featured include Cindy Sherman, Yasumasa Morimura, Claude Cahun and Pierre Molinier, as well as nineteenth-century photographers Roger Fenton and Francis Frith, who dressed in authentic clothing from faraway places to associate visually with the places where they practiced their “documentary” photography.
This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Photographs in the exhibition are from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection.
Curator: Deborah Irmas, Guest Curator.
http://www.lacma.org/art/ExhibPast2007.aspx
Cindy Sherman (United States, b. 1954), Untitled Film Still #5 [Woman opening letter], 1977, gelatin-silver print,6 3/4 x 9 1/2 in., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, © Cindy Sherman.
The performance aspect of self-portraiture takes on a slightly different cast when the person portrayed is playing a role, in disguise, or otherwise fictionalized. Ultimately of course, every self-portrait is a fiction, a portrait of someone else, and an arena in which another is confronted or an alter-ego encountered.Robert Sobieszek in “Other Selves in Photographic Self-Portraiture,” The Camera I.
That “slightly different cast,” the pretending, the partial or complete transformation of a person, becomes a visual game when applied to photographic self-portraiture. We want to see the photographer behind the mask, the make-up, the uniform or costume … the truth of the medium behind the fiction of the situation. When does the masquerade tell another kind of truth?
Consisting of some thirty works drawn from LACMA’s permanent collection, Masquerade: Role Playing in Self-Portraiture will explore the way in which photographers – costumed, masked, wigged, made-up or transformed through technique or situation – present their fictional, or “Other Selves.”
Photographers whose work will be featured include Cindy Sherman, Yasumasa Morimura, Claude Cahun and Pierre Molinier, as well as nineteenth-century photographers Roger Fenton and Francis Frith, who dressed in authentic clothing from faraway places to associate visually with the places where they practiced their “documentary” photography.
This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Photographs in the exhibition are from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection.
Curator: Deborah Irmas, Guest Curator.
http://www.lacma.org/art/ExhibPast2007.aspx
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