Cindy Sherman: Mannequins & Masks | Art21 "Extended Play"

(rousing music)

- I think the sausages

from one of the sex pictures are here.

I dunno...

Some of the leaves I've
used in backgrounds

of some of the fairytales,

and the rocks I used in
some of the fairytales.

This one was one that I made from,

I don't know what's series you'd call it,

but it was sort of, I guess, part of those

disastery kind of masks that I did.

I think this one I used in that kiss one.

It was like an upside--

It was like, I think
it was with this head.

I think they were like that, together,

and I took a picture like
that, something like that.

And...

But some of them, I haven't used.

That one was actually,
I forgot where she was.

I was looking for her.

She was the one I used to
use as the fill in for me.

It's like the thing I focus on.

Basically, I have this head on a tripod

that I use to stand in for myself.

So then, what I do is figure out

where the camera is gonna be
and put a piece of tape down,

and then put tape down according
to where the eye line is.

So then the tricky part is,

when I'm actually shooting
myself in the picture,

to make sure that I'm always gauging,

as closely as I can
estimate, where the focus is,

and it doesn't always work.

So sometimes I'll have to
move it from side to side,

depending on which side I'm favoring,

or try to move it closer
if I can't really tell.

But yeah, it's just really
important to sort of know,

just look at myself and figure out

what's working and what's not.