Full list of photos here. Photographer Sandro Miller and Actor John Malkovich "teamed up to recreate some of history's most iconic portraits, naming the resulting body of work "Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to Photographic Masters." "Eighteen months ago I flew to France to see John, armed with a package of 30 iconic images by 28 master photographers, and to tell him about my idea for a new project," Miller explained... he and a team of experts spent the next eight months dissecting every last detail of the photos, an effort to ensure the project honored -- not mocked -- the original photographers. "My biggest fear was that people wouldn’t take this project seriously. I didn’t want these to be a parody," Miller said in the statement. "I was serious about paying homage to these photographers and photographs that changed my perspective on photography. These images inspired me throughout my career and developed me into the photographer I am today ... This is my way of saying thank you to the masters that created these amazing images." See them side-by-side with the originals, click here. Recreations: Original Famous Portraits:
Posted here on the Fraser Valley Regional Library's facebook page. They are also running a photo contest during March (see the Contests tab)
Fantasy Author Jim C. Hines writes this on his website: (which has more examples):
"In January of 2012, I decided that I wanted to talk about science fiction and fantasy cover art, particularly the ways women were portrayed. At first, I thought about writing a long blog post, talking about how saturated we were with imagery that emphasized women as sexual objects at the expense of power, agency, realism, and so on.Then I decided there might be a more effective way to encourage discussion. With assistance and surprisingly little eye-rolling or laughter from my wife, I contorted myself into the poses of women on various SF/F covers. Things snowballed from there. I did several follow-up photoshoots, ran a cover-posing fundraiser, and was even honored with a Hugo award that year." Never think you can't take great pictures, or make great movies, because you don't have great equipment to use. Award winning photographs hang in galleries that were shot with a $15 camera in 2006 (link) This was explained to me by Ken Rockwell (my best source of camera reviews), who says in his article Your Camera Doesn't Matter: "It's an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools." He quotes famous photographer Ansel Adams "The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it." The quality of photos and videos you can take with your phones are incredible now. Instagram shots can be breathtaking. In only 6 seconds a Vine video can be arresting. But the point is you can make do with even less! It's your creativity and imagination that makes an impact! Last thought from Mr. Rockwell again "The word "image comes from the word "imagination." It doesn't come from "lens sharpness" or "noise levels." Speaking of... watch this video for the first 60 seconds and you'll be amazed. Phil Hansen has created really creative pieces of art, such as a painting made only with karate chops. He finds a really interesting thing, that "embracing a limitation can actually drive creativity." When you're given an assignment where "you can do anything you want" it's almost paralyzing - some students can't get past the choosing a topic phase. This is intentionally why I don't have you "just take lots of pictures", (though that's a great way to get better at photography), but I've created sometimes arbitrary restrictions that you have to be creative within. I hope you've successfully flexed your creative muscles this year and continue to do so on your own! Below is his Ted Talk (which are amazing, partly because speakers have to work in a 20 min time limitation)
A beautiful series of photographs. "My wife Jennifer was diagnosed with breast cancer just 5 months after our wedding and 4 years later she passed.Hoping to show people what day to day life with cancer is like I photographed our life." mywifesfightwithbreastcancer.com |
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