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By combining photographic self-portraiture and history painting, she evokes a sense of displacement, suggesting that history – in this case the origins of the United States – is subject to constant reinvention.\r\n\nChromogenic print\r\nMuseum no. E.882-2003\r\n\nPresented by the J.P. Morgan\r\nChase Art Collection through Art Fund","date":{"text":"2025","earliest":"2025-01-01","latest":"2025-12-31"}},{"text":"Making It Up: Photographic Fictions (2018)\r\n\r\nSherman is one of the leading contemporary practitioners of staged photography. Since the 1970s she has photographed herself in myriad guises. By demonstrating the mutability of her own appearance, she draws attention to the constructed nature of female identity in society. 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