Alison Jackson

from Taschen
264 pages
Hardcover
9783822846384

Alison Jackson

$42.99

What you see in this book is not "real." Alison Jackson has photographed the Queen of England on the toilet, George Bush and Tony Blair chatting in the sauna, Mick Jagger doing gymnastics, and Monica Lewinsky lighting Bill Clinton's 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. Jackson says, "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 -- our voyeurism -- and our need to believe." By showing "celebrities" ostensibly caught unawares, Jackson's controversial pictures show us what we imagine might go on behind closed doors. Big, hardcover, mostly color.

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