I saw some photographs by Sandro Miller of his friend John Malkovich on the web. In the photos John Malkovich impersonates various people in famous portrait photographs. I don't know if they were supposed to be tongue in cheek but I thought they were very funny. I've pasted images below of the 'original' photograph next to the copies as a kind of compare and contrast. See if you can tell which ones are of John Malkovich (no prizes for this as it isn't very hard). Looking at the photographs side by side I noticed that the things that make an image memorable are quite subtle and not easy to imitate and if you don't get it right it looks odd. For example in the image below of Marilyn Monroe her photograph is 'sexy' but with a certain vulnerable/fragile quality whereas the John Malkovich image just looks 'weird'. You can see more of the images at this link - http://edelmangallery.com/exhibitions-and-projects/exhibition-pages/2014/sandro-miller-malkovich,-malkovich,-malkovich-homage-to-photographic-masters.html Comments are closed.
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