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- Cindy Sherman: Well I don't usually[br]do commissions,

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but I think when I

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haven't been working,

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when I feel like I need some sort of,

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project to challenge me,

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to force me to start working.

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I sometimes will just accept it,

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because I have a real deadline

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to, y'know, to force me to get going.

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It was through a friend of mine

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who represents Balenciaga,

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asked me if I wanted to do [br]some shots for French Vogue,

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and I said, my sort of stipulation is,

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as long as you can lend me the clothes for

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weeks at a time,

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and I don't have that [br]kind of pressure that,

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like, normally, I think commercial[br]photographers

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shoot everything in one day,

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and I said, no, I need [br]the clothes for longer,

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and so they were totally cool with that.

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I...

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wanted it to look like these are people

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who happen to be wearing Balenciaga[br]at, like, some groovy, y'know, parties.

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Maybe they work in the fashion business,

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or maybe they would like to be working[br]in the fashion business.

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I...

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was trying to, y'know, sort of

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make it look as if [br]they're shot with flash.

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The backgrounds are all digitally added

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with just shots of people in[br]restaurants and bars.

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And, yeah that was kind of what

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this series started out as,

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and...

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then I subsequently

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blew up one of these large

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to see how it would

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hold up as a work of art,

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And it didn't look good [br]with the backgrounds,

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so I wound up going back

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and completely changing the backgrounds,

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and they sort of,

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now have a new life as like,[br]different sort of pictures.

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Still somewhat as if they're from parties,

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but even, in some cases, even more so,

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because I added these flash effects.

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And it was actually the first time I tried[br]shooting with the digital camera.

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I borrowed a friend's camera,

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and I was kind of nervous about that, too.

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Now I'm suddenly experimenting [br]with a digital camera,

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and I don't know how to use it,

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and does it work the same with the lights?

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And then I have to set it up[br]to look at my computer while I'm shooting,

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and it was all kind of touch and go [br]in the beginning

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and a little scary,

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but once I was into it,

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it was just like, I'm a total convert.

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I threw out all my film and I'm ready to [br]get rid of my cameras,

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and it's like,[br]I would just never go back to film.