Her Secret Identities
Cindy Sherman’s gentle personality makes her disturbing photographs all the more mysterious and unforgettable, Calvin Tomkins writes.
"'Cindy is such a girl,' her old friend Brooke Alderson said. 'When we talk, it's usually about something like finding the right lipstick at Kmart.' Another sees her as 'a girl, like grrr-l. She doesn't have an attitude. But I don't know anybody who kicks ass the way Cindy does in her art.'"