-On the occasion of the upcoming Cindy Sherman retrospective exhibition in the New York Museum of Modern Art in 2012, we are pleased to present one of her most fanciful photographic series, Clowns. Having astonished the art world with her -role portraits- for almost 40 years--her History Portraits and Untitled Film Stills are milestones of conceptual portraiture--she explores the horror of laughter and the laughable in Clowns. Sherman said: -I came to clowns to show the complex emotional abysses of a painted smile.-
This volume presents the entire series of eighteen color photographs...

In spring 2012 artist Jason Brinkerhoff (born 1974) discovered a collection of around 950 black-and-white Type 42 Polaroids featuring headshots and intimate close-ups of actresses taken from the television screen beginning in the late 1960s. The origins of the series--and, most notably, its creator--remain entirely mysterious, their author's only trace being the scribbles of actresses' names and dates on the Polaroids' edges. Edited by Nicole Delmes and Susanne Zander, and introduced by Cindy Sherman, Fame Is the Name of the Game showcases a selection of 120 works from the...

The Men in the Cities series made Robert Longo famous
in the 1980s: larger-than-life drawings of sharply
dressed business people writhing in contortion, a sort
of death dance of the modern man. Created between
1977 and 1983, it is an early attempt in merging
sculpture, drawing, photography, and film.
This book presents the photographic source material
to the series taken by the artist himself. Using friends
such as Cindy Sherman, Brooke Alexander, Glenn
Branca, and Larry Gagosian as models, he'd bring
them up on the roof of his New York City loft, rig up
ropes...