Inspiration of Cindy Sherman - Photographic Self-portrait as a Way of Searching for Identity

Anglická anotace Inspiration of Cindy Sherman - photographic self-portrait as a way of searching an identity My bachelor thesis deals with photography and self-portraits like the specific need of human being to look at itself physically and also to get in its inner space. The recognition of oneself in a photography can serve to define oneself, to create identifiable and distinct subject. This is the narcissistic pleasure of the mirror, in which we reassure ourselves in our existence. The fact that photographic means can be employed to create fictions, to promote surreal or fantastic illusions, to create fetishes that are fixed and transfix, is what makes the photography an icon as well. The medium of photography yields also the perfect arena for the play of gender and sexuality. The beginning of existence the photographic self-portraits is associated with "carte de visite" and photographic studios like Mayer & Pierson where these photographs depicted the Countess de Castiglione in various masks and disguises. The surrealistic artists started to experiment with own identity afterwards. They used masks to "uncover" themselves. Here leads the way to my main point of interest in this bachelor thesis: Cindy Sherman. Of course we need to consider carefully terms and contexts that formed Sherman's work, but..