Untitled Film Stills

Untitled Film Stills is a series of black and white photographs by American visual artist Cindy Sherman predominantly made between 1977 and 1980, which gained her international recognition.

[5] In December 1995, the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) acquired all sixty-nine black-and-white photographs in the series.

In past exhibitions at MOMA, the photographs are neither hung chronologically, nor grouped according to theme, locale, or content.

Modest in scale compared to Sherman's later cibachrome photographs, they are all 8½ × 11 inches, each displayed in identical, simple black frames.

In the essay The Making of Untitled, Sherman reflects on her beginnings with this series:I suppose unconsciously, or semiconsciously at best, I was wrestling with some sort of turmoil of my own about understanding women.