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Cindy Sherman photographs herself in various scenes and guises, grouped into informally-named series. Installing a series of society portraits for a 2008 solo gallery show at Metro Pictures in NYC, Sherman discusses the desire to increase the scale of the photographs in the exhibition. “You see male artists doing it all the time, even when they're not even, like, well known,” says Sherman in our “Transformation” episode. “It just seemed like such a big egotistical thing. And I thought, "I don't

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