Cindy Sherman Goes Stepping Out

I don't even know if the following sort of thing even qualifies as ephemera. It may be a sub-genre so low on the paper-waste scale of our society that it falls under the fish-wrap rubric. Still, I find it interesting and fun.

I'm not intimate with the details of the woman's life but I recall that in her early days, Cindy Sherman didn't like to be photographed, perhaps having to do with not wanting her image to distract from the imagery she created, which in the early days always included herself. Then there was a period when she was married during which she was somewhat reclusive. And finally, divorced in 1999, she began appearing in public.

Which is where this starts: in public, in 1999. What follows are appearances by Sherman in the society pages of New York City publications.

New York Magazine
August 30, 1999

New York Magazine
August 24-29, 2002


New York Times
October 23, 2004


New York Times
July 29, 2007

New York Magazine
November 5, 2007