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Cindy Sherman

1954 - Today

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Cynthia Morris Sherman (born January 19, 1954) is an American artist whose work consists primarily of photographic self-portraits, depicting herself in many different contexts and as various imagined characters. Her breakthrough work is often considered to be the collected Untitled Film Stills, a series of 70 black-and-white photographs of herself evoking typical female roles in performance media (especially arthouse films and popular B-movies). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cindy Sherman has received more than 1,910,734 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia. Cindy Sherman is the 789th most popular painter (down from 715th in 2019), the 2,713th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,393rd in 2019) and the 31st most popular American Painter.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Cindy Sherman ranks 789 out of 1,421. Before her are Franz Anton Maulbertsch, Shen Zhou, Marie-Guillemine Benoist, Winslow Homer, Richard Parkes Bonington, and Peter Snayers. After her are Lee Krasner, Vasily Polenov, Nicolas Lancret, Toriyama Sekien, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, and Marie Krøyer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Cindy Sherman ranks 97. Before her are Ellen Barkin, Uli Jon Roth, Pat Metheny, Lorraine Bracco, Bruno Metsu, and Catherine O'Hara. After her are Mirza Delibašić, Jermaine Jackson, Joey DeMaio, Prince Ernst August of Hanover, Lina Romay, and Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cindy Sherman ranks 2,713 out of 18,182. Before her are Wallace Shawn (1943), Allen Newell (1927), Liev Schreiber (1967), George Pullman (1831), Katharine Graham (1917), and Jimmie Angel (1899). After her are Lee Krasner (1908), Darryl F. Zanuck (1902), Bonnie Bedelia (1948), Bruce Campbell (1958), Djuna Barnes (1892), and David Packard (1912).

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Among PAINTERS In United States

Among painters born in United States, Cindy Sherman ranks 31. Before her are Allan Kaprow (1927), Will Sampson (1933), Julian Schnabel (1951), Dorothea Tanning (1910), Thomas Eakins (1844), and Winslow Homer (1836). After her are Lee Krasner (1908), Carl Andre (1935), Gutzon Borglum (1867), Chuck Close (1940), Henry Hill (1943), and Barbara Kruger (1945).

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