Cindy Sherman
Sherman is an american photographer and film director, best known for her controversial portraits. Throughout her career she has sought to produce work that challenges important questions about the media and women in general society. Using herself mainly as her model for he photography she has documented herself in many different images, some disturbing, some provocative but all effective.
When she was asked to produce a set of fairytale images for vanity fair she didn't want to do the usual children's fairytale story, instead she chose to adapt her own concept of a fairytale that hasn't been censored for children viewers yet. She kept a level of gore and violence within her images but not enough to make the photograph a very graphic one.
Another example of her work showing her concerns over women in society is this image. She has created this image as a centre fold for a magazine, just as the provocative images in the male magazines at the time would have, so that when the men open this image expecting a sexy woman spread across the page he is faced with her image depicting women as 'the victims'.
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