In almost most of Serman's work she uses facial expressions and lighting effect to create a story. With the use of liberal amounts of makeup, Sherman moved into the realm of the photographs that featured mutilated bodies and reflected such concerns as eating disorders, insanity, and death. Her work became less ambiguous, focusing perhaps more on the results of society’s acceptance of stereotyped roles for women than upon the roles themselves.
Inspired with her way of addressing the concerns that women have been facing throughout the history and still do in this time and age, I created a selfie to tell a story of a woman who is scared inside and being target of the society for different reasons. Though still being strong enough to not give the expression of being afraid and weak. Which relates back to Sherman when she stated in her documentry that how city scares her but she still walks down those roads everyday and not let the fear stop her.
In the documentary, sherman mentioned the incident of walking down the road and making herself look dangerous to scare people away in order to save herself from being harmed from the hand's of same people. It's the illusion that you create, and let other fall for it. Being an artist She created different kind of illusions through her photography to bring up the social and controversial issues. Issues no one talks about, nor they want to. With my selfie I also tried to work on my facial expressions and the lightening effect to create a narrative of being a women of different background and religion in America and how it shaped me throughout my experience.
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