Alison Jackson: Confidential - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3822846384 ISBN 13 : 9783822846384

Editeur : Taschen GmbH, 2007

Synopsis

<div id="description_text_headlines" class="margin-bottom"><strong>Daring doppelg&#228;ngers:&#160;What you see in this book is not &#8220;real&#8221;</strong></div><div class="margin-bottom">&#160;</div><div class="description_text"> <div id="description_text" class="margin-bottom"><strong>Alison Jackson</strong>&#160;has photographed the&#160;<strong>Queen of England</strong>&#160;on the toilet,&#160;<strong>George Bush</strong>&#160;and&#160;<strong>Tony Blair</strong>&#160;chatting in the sauna,&#160;<strong>Mick Jagger</strong>&#160;doing gymnastics, and&#160;<strong>Monica Lewinsky</strong>&#160;lighting&#160;<strong>Bill Clinton&#8217;s</strong>&#160;cigar. Or has she? The likenesses are uncanny, but of course, her subjects are look-alikes. Her photos demonstrate that while seeing is believing, the truth is another story entirely. In her work, Jackson says, &#8220;Likeness becomes real and fantasy touches on the believable. The viewer is suspended in disbelief. I try to highlight the psychological relationship between what we see and what we imagine. This is bound up in our need to look&#8212;our voyeurism&#8212;and our need to believe.&#8221; Indeed, by showing &#8220;celebrities&#8221; ostensibly caught unawares, Jackson&#8217;s pictures show us what we imagine might go on behind closed doors. Jackson&#8217;s work causes controversy, because it threatens to cross the line between the private and public life of our contemporary icons. Because we unquestioningly accept the authenticity of the photograph, it would appear that we are being given a glimpse of something confidential, a private moment. It is only upon closer examination that we question the reality of the image, and hopefully this makes us question our unwitting tendency to believe everything we see in the media today.<br><br><strong>For this edition, Jackson has been commissioned to shoot a broad selection of new portraits of dead-ringers for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, George Bush, J. Lo, Eminem, Britney Spears, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, and many more</strong>. Expect the unexpected!<br><br><strong>With essays by Will Self, Charles Glass, and William Ewing.</strong></div> <div class="margin-bottom">&#160;</div> <div class="margin-bottom">All photographs &#169; Alison Jackson<br>All well-known individuals depicted in this book are not &#8220;real.&#8221; The photographs have been created using look-alikes. The well-known individuals have not had any involvement in the creation of the photographs and they have not approved them, nor has their approval been sought for the publication of these photographs.</div> <div class="margin-bottom">&#160;</div> <div class="margin-bottom">Text in English, French, and German</div></div>

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

L'artiste : travaillant avec les moyens de communication de masse - films. publicité, télévision et livres - tout en exposant dans les galeries d'art, Alison Jackson a remporté de nombreux prix. Auteur du bestseller Private, réalisatrice de la fameuse (et scandaleuse) série télévisée Double Take, ainsi que de films et d'émissions sur Tony Blair, la famille royale et la vie privée de footballeurs, c'est une artiste avec laquelle il faudra désormais compter. Jackson a étudié la sculpture et la photographie au Royal College of Art de Londres. Depuis, elle a exposé dans les plus grandes galeries d'art contemporain et les musées d'Europe et d'Amérique du Nord.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Taschen GmbH
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3822846384
• ISBN 13: 9783822846384
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Coordonnées du fabricant: TASCHEN GmbH; contact@taschen.com; ; Hohenzollernring 53. D; K�ln; 50672; Allemagne