Artist Research - Cindy Sherman

Sherman works in series, typically photographing herself in a range of costumes. To create her photographs, Sherman shoots alone in her studio, assuming multiple roles as author, director, make-up artist, hairstylist, wardrobe mistress—and, of course, model. Bus Riders (1976/2000) are a series of photographs that feature the artist as a variety of meticulously observed characters. The photographs were shot in 1976 but, like another series entitled Murder Mystery People, not printed or exhibited until 2000 and are among the artist's earliest work. Sherman uses elaborate costumes and make-up to transform her identity for each image, but is photographed in a sparse, obviously staged setting with a wooden chair standing in for the bus seat.

This is her 'Bus Riders' collection of alter egos.


"One of the reasons I started photographing myself was that supposedly in the Spring one of my teachers would take the class out to a place near Buffalo where there were waterfalls and everybody romps around without clothes on and takes pictures of each other. I thought, ‘Oh, I don’t want to do this. But if we’re going to have to go to the woods I better deal with it early.’ Luckily we never had to do that."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Sherman

This bus riders collection of her work are all pictures of Cindy Sherman herself, just dressed as different people. These could all be classed as alter egos of different people doing different things in a certain place, in this instance it would be people doing different things on a bus. 

This is another of her portrait pictures, again as a different alter ego of hers. she also seems to use other people as her alto ego, for example in the 'bus riders' collection she has clearly dressed up other people to how she wants them to look, for example using men.