Cindy Sherman: Centerfold (Untitled #96): MoMA One on One Series

By: Gwen Allen

In 1981 Cindy Sherman was commissioned to contribute a special project to Artforum magazine. Given two facing pages, she chose to explore the pornographic centerfold, creating 12 largescale horizontal images of herself appearing as various young women, often reclining, in private, melancholic moments of reverie. As Sherman explained, "I wanted a man opening up the magazine to suddenly look at it in expectation of something lascivious and then feel...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1633451186
• ISBN13: 9781633451186
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.2" x 9.0"