This image by Cindy Sherman is an image from the “Centerfold or Horizontals” series. Each image of the series pictures different women. For the series, Sherman created images that was intended to mock the centerfolds from the pornographic magazines.
She shows what
can be correctly assumed to be a teenager in her early teens. The teenager is
portrayed as an innocent being. But Sherman has also succeeded in introducing
an element of seduction hidden in the innocence of the girl. The girl in the
image is shown to be carrying a crumbled page from a newspaper with one of her
fingers pointing towards a particular point in that piece. On a closer look, it
is revealed that the finger is pointed towards a ‘singles’ ad in the piece of
newspaper. This simple detail reveals the longing of the teenager to become a
woman. It shows that she is ready to leave her life of a teenager behind, find
a suitable man and become his woman.
The image has been kept
simple by the use soft and minimum lines as well as different values of almost
the same color. The use of horizontal lines in the image also conveys that the
teenage girl depicted is at rest.
This picture caught my
attention because of its simplicity. I loved the way the image portrays two
contrasting characteristics, innocence and seduction, in a single picture.
Also, the way Cindy Sherman has shown the feeling of longing in the eyes of the
teenaged girl is simply brilliant. I could also relate to the image as this is
a phase undergone by all of us during our adolescence period.
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