After perusing the Hallwalls website, it seems I’ve found an outtake from the Untitled Film Stills! Cindy Sherman exhibited the image in 1979, but it has since been removed from the set. A similar photo still remains part of the series, though—Untitled Film Still #28.
(Source: hallwalls.org)
Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills, as seen in a 1978 group show at Artists Space, as well as her first solo show at Hallwalls the following year. I always find it interesting to see early installation shots of the Film Stills. In the beginning, Sherman would usually hang them with push pins. After all, she never really intended for them to become such commodities; she wanted them to seem a bit cheap and ephemeral.
![Cindy Sherman - Twins, 1975 (destroyed by the artist)Photographic emulsion on canvas, painted
Believe it or not, Cindy Sherman actually began as a painting major at Buffalo State. It wasn’t until the second half of her sophomore year that she fell in love with conceptual photography. During that same semester, she created this painting. In a recent interview for a catalogue of Sherman’s early works, Charles Clough—a fellow artist, friend, and co-founder of Hallwalls—remembers the piece well.
Sherman and [Robert] Longo and I were in the kitchen in the loft upstairs from Hallwalls and Cindy… took a painted double self-portrait and put it in the trash. I pulled it out and said I thought it would be valuable someday, and Cindy asked for it back and then destroyed it.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m76mnjnwJW1r0zjlqo1_500.jpg)
Cindy Sherman - Twins, 1975 (destroyed by the artist)
Photographic emulsion on canvas, painted
Believe it or not, Cindy Sherman actually began as a painting major at Buffalo State. It wasn’t until the second half of her sophomore year that she fell in love with conceptual photography. During that same semester, she created this painting. In a recent interview for a catalogue of Sherman’s early works, Charles Clough—a fellow artist, friend, and co-founder of Hallwalls—remembers the piece well.
Sherman and [Robert] Longo and I were in the kitchen in the loft upstairs from Hallwalls and Cindy… took a painted double self-portrait and put it in the trash. I pulled it out and said I thought it would be valuable someday, and Cindy asked for it back and then destroyed it.
