Mar 2, 2016
"In 2005, the acclaimed cultural critic Margo Jefferson wrote a review of the International Center for Photography exhibit, White: Whiteness and Race in Contemporary Art. Of all of the art in the exhibit, Jefferson was most disappointed by Sherman’s "Bus Riders" series. She wrote, “…the blacks are all exactly the same color, the color of traditional blackface makeup. They all have nearly the same features, too, while Ms. Sherman is able to give the white characters she impersonates a real range of skin tones and facial features. This didn't look like irony to me. It looked like a stale visual myth that was still in good working order.”