Sherman, in turn, was inspired by Claude Cahun (nee Lucy Schwob), who early in the last century began taking androgynous self-portraits. Given all this borrowing and lifting, artists are reluctant to shout "j'accuse" at others because doing so can sound like hubris. (What, you think your stuff came out of nowhere?) In journalism, plagiarism busts are pretty straightforward, in part because no reporter would ever say, "I wasn't copying that story. I was paying homage to its style." Artists, on the other hand, know that if you look hard enough, you'll find the fingerprints of predecessors all over their work.