Cindy Sherman—the photographer and artist known for pretending to be people she’s not long before everyone on the Internet started doing that—is a real weirdo. Over the course of her nearly 40-year career photographing herself as clowns, aging socialites, and old-school film stars, she’s been a master at transforming herself into characters.
So while I know Cindy Sherman is brilliant, I don’t really know much about her as a person. The real her without all the wigs. That is, until, she made her Instagram public for the first time this week and that’s when I learned who the real Cindy is. This is everything I learned about her from her ‘gram.
Her original handle was “misterfriedas_mom” a reference to the fact that she is an adoring single mom to her pet parrot named Mister Frieda.
He seems like a well-adjusted young man.
Just like the rest of us, she facetunes her photos. Ya know, for a little blemish-covering here and there.
Casual!
This bitch is around chickens, like, all the time.
SHE HAS SO MANY CHICKENS! And she even keeps a camera on them apparently at all times.
She regularly hangs out with noted French ice queens Isabelle Huppert and Catherine Deneuve.
I feel like they definitely run through Paris in the night egging houses and slashing tires, non?
Even though she is a world-renowned, groundbreaking feminist photographer, she is not immune to taking basic-ass photos of a snowfall.
One commenter wrote: unreal!
And she also photographs her food.
But there’s definitely a filter on this, right?
This is an example of a totally normal Christmas card she sent once.
It honestly seems like she lives a beautiful life in the city and country where she is often around a wide variety of animals including these horses named Teddy and Smokey.
And she looks like this:
Does it make you feel weird? It kind of makes me feel weird.
DISCUSSION
Years and years ago, she directed a movie called Office Killer, starring Molly Ringwald, Jeanne Tripplehorn, and Carol Kane as the title character—a murderous copy editor with an extremely interesting brow game. Rotten Tomatoes gives it 12%, but they are WRONG. It’s one of the oddest, most creepily wonderful films I’ve ever seen.