Moving on with the times, Sherman now uses Photoshop in her work. Is this necessary if she is already so skilful in creating these portraits without it? And surely that her work was analogue was part of its appeal? Wetzler argues that, “Throughout her career, Sherman has been singularly attuned to the cultural role of images, and her digital works, too, capture and comment on the way we understand photographs today—not as documents of reality, but as raw materials that can be endlessly refashioned.”

View Cindy’s work at MoMA Exhibition.