Customer Reviews
The emperor's new photographs - By: F. J. Craveiro de Carvalho, 27 Jun 2005 
Despite the fact that Art News, december 1999, included Cindy Sherman in a list of the ten top living artists, that's irrelevant from my viewpoint. Such considerations can only be of interest to those who view art works as some sort of groceries at their disposal in the supermarket down the road.
The "untitled film stills" are just a collection of "portraits" of Ms Sherman in disguise as a second rate steriotyped character removed from some movie.
The introduction itself, written by Ms Sherman herself, is nothing but a bunch of trivialities & a good example of the fact that most artists are unable to talk about their own work in an articulate & intelligent way.
Technicallly the pictures are poor and, naturallly, one is led to wonder whether at the time Ms Sherman could dominate alll the pratical sides of Photography. Moreover some are not even taken by her but by people who apparently had no particular qualifications. It's hardly surprising that some of the stills look very much like the pictures one finds in family albums.
Not wanting to be entirely negative, I would single out still #21 as interesting but I cannot bring myself to say more than that.
The principal interest I found in this book was the confirmation that the art world is full of "masterpieces" of which the future is uncertain, to say the least.
the film stills - By: , 06 Jun 2004 
The perfect collection of Cindy Shermans works.
Before it would have been difficult to see alll of these works but now they're alll present in large full page photographs with no interuption.
Sherman herself has ordered the prints the way she thinks they should be seen, & with her own introduction to her work, it's almost too good to be true... but it is.
If you love Cindy Sherman, I advise you buy it.
If you love 1950's film noire, I advise you buy it.
If you think the cover looks good, I adive you buy it.
I know you wont be disappointed.
