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PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW

Cindy Sherman’s mosaic of selves

Slippery identity in Sherman’s mosaic of selves

By Mark Feeney

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 11, 2012

“Cindy Sherman,’’ a very large, very impressive, and rather overwhelming photographic retrospective, runs through June 11 at the Museum of Modern Art. For 35 years, Sherman has created a mosaic of selves with her work. How large is that mosaic? There are 171 photographs in the show, nearly all of them examples of Sherman’s photographic self-presentations in which she assumes a role, creates a character, plays a part, or enacts a type. Sometimes she does all four at once.

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