Cindy Sherman - Retrospective (Art Photo Ebook)

[racing the Subjeci visible unless he is possessed by it, unless he is of it . . .
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Fully
( i.kK Sherman
technologized through photography, we must recognize our participation
in
the effects of such seeing.
This rumination offers itself as a provisional and suggestive formulation.
It revels in its failure to cohere into a convincing new picture of
Sherman, just as it
reads her work as strategically failing to cohere the
(female) subject and, in so doing, assisting in the production of a new eye:
one that embraces rather than penetrates, one that sucks and gleams 49
rather than projecting, one that offers the possibility of new subjects of
vision who mold themselves into the intersubjective mask of blackness
(for example) rather than attempting to master blackness as other. 59
At the
same time, I take Sherman's work as a challenge to acknowledge the
contingency of my readings on my very pointed (feminist) investments
and desires.