"Some viewers are somewhat troubled by what they consider to be extreme bad taste in these images, but Sherman's notebooks describe her ambitions for the Sex Pictures in quite different terms:
"Sex pix - should move forward towards terror.... It's easy to make a funny or shocking picture based solely on the appearances or revelations of the sex organs (especially these organs). The difficulty is making poignant yet explicit imagery."
"The shock (or terror) should come from what the sexual elements are really standing for - death, power, aggression, beauty, sadness, etc."
(uit: 'Essential Series: Cindy Sherman')
> Cindy Sherman in 1992: The Sex Pictures
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