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"Cindy Sherman: Retrospective"
JEU DE PAUME, PARIS
May 16-September 3
Curated by Véronique Dabin and Régis Durand
In 1976, the first "Untitled Film Still" was still a year away, and Cindy Sherman was perhaps best known-to the extent that she was known at all-as the Buffalo, New York-based artist who sported funny getups for parties at Hallwalls, the exhibition space she cofounded with Robert Longo, Nancy Dwyer, and other students in late 1974. But Sherman had in fact already produced a substantial, if small, body of work that included such pieces as a short Super-8 film of a young woman qua paper doll (donning-you guessed it-paper-doll clothes); thirty-four individual portraits of a disparate group of bus riders; and a photographed roll call of actors playing...