In the late 1980s and early '90s, Cindy Sherman created a series of photographic scenes that challenged even some of her most ardent fans. Plastic female torsos were depicted with objects protruding from their sexual organs. Stretches of surfaces were shown littered with vomit, feces, and other graphic discards. And, through it all, Sherman was nowhere to be seen. The beloved Cindy Sherman — the woman of 1,000 disguises, who'd been front and center of her own work for more than a decade — had virtually disappeared from view. "I think," Sherman once said of those photos, "I wanted to make something that I couldn't imagine anyone buying. 'I... More >>>