Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to the Masters

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Gallery FIFTY ONE presents the remarkable portrait series ‘Malkovich Malkovich Malkovich: Homageto the Masters’, by the American photographer Sandro Miller (°1985) with the actor John Malkovich inthe leading role.

For this project, Miller went back to the iconic images that have always inspired and moved him in hiscareer as a photographer and recreated these memorable classics with his close friend and museJohn Malkovich as his model. Under Miller’s close direction, Malkovich masterly transformed himselfinto a diverse set of characters, ranging from John Lennon to Marilyn Monroe and Picasso toDorothea Lange’s iconic ‘migrant mother’.

Next to Malkovich’s brilliant chameleon-like performance, the strength of this series lies in the amountof effort that Miller put into fully understanding the image he wanted to recreate both on a technicaland emotional level. The actual shootings in 2014 and 2017 were preceded by 2 years of research toensure that every detail was correct. Even the sizes of the prints and the way they are framedapproaches the original as closely as possible, adding to the experience of viewing this series in reallife. The result is not a gimmick nor a parody, but a successful homage to the masters of photography and a report of a brilliant collaboration between two contemporary artist that deserves its own spot inphotography history.

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