John Malkovich Recreates Classic Photos

[Rob MacKillop]

strange...

http://petapixel.com/2014/09/22/ico...out-history-recreated-john-malkovich-subject/

 

[Pete Askew]

How very odd (but effective) indeed. Warhol, Einstein and Jagger are especially convincing. Nice find Rob - how?!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

It was a brief two-line news item linked from the side of my Facebook page...not sure what to make of it.

 

[Pete Askew]

An update.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-29352334

 

[Rob MacKillop]

"social media's degradation of photography as an art form". Really? People have always taken personal snaps, it's just that they don't now get confined to a shoebox in a cupboard. And I know that even in my small world of FaceBook Friends, some people have seen my images and have been inspired to try something beyond the usual selfies. I often get asked for advice on cameras, software and techniques. Those that know me here will know that I am probably the last person to ask about those things. But the point is that I see nothing but people either enjoying what some (not me) might call non-artistic photography, and still have an appreciation for something more "artistic" when they see it.

I think this photographer and his actor friend are stuck up their own derrières...

Photography is currently very much alive and kicking, covering the entire range of human expression.

I smell a bourgeois angst from losing control...

 

[Pete Askew]

or, cash!

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Ah, yes, of course. Too true.

 

[Paul Lange]

I'm not sure what to make of it either the idea is interesting, I suppose. What do you think @Tom Dinning.

 

[Chris Dodkin]

so wonderfully bizarre Rob - nice find