Centerfolds By Cindy Sherman First Edition, Published by Skarstedt 2003 Condition, as new. Hardback, With removable dust Jacket About In the early 1980s Sherman was commissioned to create new work to be published in the influential art magazine Artforum. She chose to take on the theme of the centerfold model. Although the magazine’s editor ultimately rejected the project, the artist decided to pursue it on her own, producing a total of 12 large-scale color photographs (Untitled #85–#96). The Centerfolds show young, often reclining women (all are, of course, Sherman herself) in private, somewhat melancholic moments of reverie, longing, or waiting. Some simply stare into space, their expressions difficult to read. While none of the photographs are nudes or explicitly sexual, they were intended to make viewers question their conscious or unconscious assumptions and impulses when looking at a pornographic centerfold—a format that perhaps had a far greater hold on the male (and female) imagination in the 1980s than it does today, when pornography has largely migrated from print to digital platforms.
