On the reception and the politics of an iconic image from Cindy Shermans influential Centerfolds series In 1981 Cindy Sherman born 1954 was commissioned to contribute a special project to Artforum magazine. Given two facing pages she chose to explore the pornographic centerfold creating 12 largescale horizontal images of herself appearing as various young women often reclining in private melancholic moments of reverie. As Sherman explained I wanted a man opening up the magazine to suddenly look