Staged Photography and the Performance of Autofacture

This paper will use Roland Barthes’ observation of staged photography as a primitive form of theatre as its theoretical point of departure in order to reconcile both the theatrical and visual codes at play in Cindy Sherman’s self-portraiture of the 1980s and 1990s and the relevance of this to perfor...

The International Journal of the Arts in Society: Annual Review

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