Guest of Cindy Sherman

Guest of Cindy Sherman

Guest of Cindy Sherman is a documentary based on Paul Hasegawa Overacker and Cindy Sherman’s brief relationship. As the title suggests Paul Hasegawa Overacker was like a guest where he gets out as swiftly as he had come into her world because he started thinking that being with her was threatening his identity, which he had built by being a straightforward individual.

 He used to attend and record his experiences at art galleries and presented his views on his show ‘Gallery Beat’ because of his uncanny and strange assessment he won over many people. During that process he also came across one of the most talented artist of that time; Cindy Sherman.

Paul Hasegawa Overacker was an open and honest individual whose work revolved around media on a daily basis whereas Cindy Sherman was exactly opposite; she was media shy and always tried to avoid them. But the thing they had in common was their passion in the field of arts. Even though they contributed to that field in different ways; it was arts that brought them together. Despite their relationship seemed flourishing at the beginning soon cracks started appearing, their relationship was always doomed to fail from the start because of their differing personality. He felt that he was always overshadowed by her and felt uncomfortable.


Bibliography

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McUHBmaLlR4

http://www.guestofcindysherman.com/about_guest_of_cindy_sherman.html

Robert Frank

Robert Frank was an American photographer and film maker who was born in 9th November 1924 in Zurich, Switzerland. He then later immigrated to America in 1947. He published a book called ‘The Americans’ in France in 1958 and the following year in America. The book was centred on post war events after Second World War. The book shows the images of America during 1950s. Although the book remains one of the most important photography books, it created controversy when it was published because it changed the classic way of looking into an image; he took images from different perspectives, which was new to people. There were only 83 images in the book; ‘The Americans’ but he actually had about 27,000 images and had to narrow it down just to 83 for the book on his trip around America. In response to Robert Frank’s book, John Szarkowski said; ‘It is difficult to remember how shocking Robert Frank's book was, The pictures took us by ambush then ... He established a new iconography for contemporary America, comprised of bits of bus depots, lunch counters, strip developments, empty spaces, cars, and unknowable faces.’
He also took pictures of Welsh miners. He once said 'Black and white is the vision of hope and despair, this is what I want in my photograph.'


To the world the book showed the deprived and struggling America, which was just recovering from the Second World War. People weren’t expecting the pictures that he took at that time to be associated with America because people dreamt of American Dream, which no longer looked achievable.






Bibliography
http://www.atgetphotography.com/The-Photographers/Robert-Frank.html

http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/04/frank200804