> German photographer born in 1955.
> Before mid 1990's, he did not manipulate his photographs.
> Drawn to large, anonymous, urban spaces. Office lobbies & stock exchanges.
> Exhibition at White Cube Gallery, Hoxton Square in East End of London.
CINDY SHERMAN
> American photographer born in 1954.
> First began painting but got frustrated with its limitations and took up photography instead.
> Works in series, typically photographing herself in a range of costumes.
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Cindy Sherman is possibly my favourite photographer because I love how she uses herself as a model and changes her identity in every photograph of hers. She explained to the New York Times in 1990, "I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear." I love the style of her photographs, black & white, grainy and they are almost iconic of that era.
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