Untitled (Male/Female Artist)

‘I think I was part of a movement, a generation, and maybe the most popular one of that movement at the time, but it probably would have happened without me… The art world was ready for something new, something beyond painting. A group of mostly women happened to be the ones to sort of take that on, partly because they felt excluded from the rest of the [male] art world, and thought, ‘Nobody is playing with photography. Let’s take that as our tool.’’
(C. Sherman, quoted in P. Hoban, ‘The Cindy Sherman Effect’, in ArtNews, February 2012, https://www.artnews.com/2012/02/14/the-cindy-sherman-effect/ [accessed 12 September 2015]).