Cindy Sherman

Known for: staged self-portraiture exploring identity and representation

Cindy Sherman has spent more than forty years photographing herself in costume and character — as film noir heroines, Renaissance portrait subjects, aging socialites, and dozens of other personae — without ever making a conventional self-portrait. Her series Untitled Film Stills (1977–80) is one of the most analyzed bodies of work in postwar photography. A print from her Untitled series sold for $3.89 million at Christie's in 2011, setting a record for a photograph at auction.