her colleage project Doll House
A Cindy Book, c. 1964-1975
A Cindy Book is an apparently typical adolescent photograph album: a
sacred record of its creator's most important "life moments." The difference
is that what seems to matter most is not the moment itself, but the subject's
own image in the photograph. That’s me, says the recurrent handwritten
inscription: at different ages, on holiday in Maine, at my cousin's wedding, at
my first dance, etc. As if Sherman ("the subject") took perpetual delight in
spotting herself amongst a group of other people, overjoyed by the fact of
her own existence, the diverse situations in which she finds herself, and the
plasticity of her being, allied to the continuity of a specific identity. ..
sacred record of its creator's most important "life moments." The difference
is that what seems to matter most is not the moment itself, but the subject's
own image in the photograph. That’s me, says the recurrent handwritten
inscription: at different ages, on holiday in Maine, at my cousin's wedding, at
my first dance, etc. As if Sherman ("the subject") took perpetual delight in
spotting herself amongst a group of other people, overjoyed by the fact of
her own existence, the diverse situations in which she finds herself, and the
plasticity of her being, allied to the continuity of a specific identity. ..
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