"Untitled Film Stills is a series of sixty-nine black-and-white photographs made between 1977 and 1980. In them Sherman appears as fictitious characters in scenarios resembling moments in a film. She used vintage clothing, wigs and makeup to create a range of female personae which she then photographed in apparently solitary, unguarded moments of reflection, undress, or in conversation with somebody off-set and outside of the frame. "

I have been focusing on Cindy Sherman for my project, I find her multiple personalities within her work fascinating. With the use of make-up and different wigs and clothes, she can change from a Hitchcock girl, a housewife to a woman victim to abuse. Its beautiful to see. Creating these nostalgic grainy images of a past time. Film stills full of stories, although she doesn't give us any help to formulate the tale behind them, they are left for us to articulate.

• "I didn't want to make 'high' art, I had no interest in using paint, I wanted to find something that anyone could relate to without knowing about contemporary art. I wasn't thinking in terms of precious prints or archival quality; I didn't want the work to seem like a commodity." Cindy Sherman.

Her work focuses on identity, gender, the "vulnerability" of woman, and of course  in comparison to this the secret power of woman. It is feminist work at its finest, it is taking the stereotypes of woman with film noir and spinning them on their head, saying, if this is what you want, here you go!. Stuart and Elisabeth Even addresses the importance of silent film on woman, they refer to early movies as manuals of desire wishes and dreams. Causing a gap between mothers who had been raised according to their traditions and daughters who wanted to be apart of the new culture.

 "The work is what it is and hopefully it’s seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff."