From a 1983 New York Times profile of up-and-coming artist/photographer Cindy Sherman:
One day several years ago, in the studio of David Salle, who borrows extensively from the media, Miss Sherman saw a soft-porn magazine photograph of ''a housewife looking sexy'' and decided she'd try to look like that. Thus were born the ''Film Stills'' with their sex objects and immaculately-packaged good girls. Miss Sherman says she was not consciously making a feminist statement when she began these pictures. ''I never thought of it as political work,'' she says, ''I don't think of myself as a very political person''...Portrait Of The Photographer As A Young Artist [nyt via @briansholis]...Maintaining full control over her ironies remains something of a problem.
