Faux paparazzi images: Bill Gates with iPod

From "CONFIDENTIAL," a series by photographer Alison Jackson. From the intro:

Alison Jackson creates films, photographic images and sculptures about our fixation with fame and celebrity culture. These Mimeses use look-a-likes of celebrities and public figures to create a photographic or filmic image, which challenges the observers' perception of reality by creating a false reality.

Link. (via Warren Ellis)

[#1 posted by Takuan , January 27, 2008 3:52 PM]

not so much falseness in the reality of these images

[#2 posted by Tom , January 27, 2008 5:38 PM]

So by presuming on our ability to accurately perceive the objective, observer-independent, a-contextual reality of these images, they are supposed to challenge our what how?

[#3 posted by punctiliouspig , January 27, 2008 5:42 PM]

Nice work but I challenge artist statements like these that go overboard in putting cultural value on our viewing of the pieces when it's more just a funny idea.

[#4 posted by KlokWerk , January 27, 2008 9:13 PM]

I'm not sure which is more artistic, these days: the images or the language used to describe them.

Where I would say, "It is a picture of a potato", a proper art publicist would say, "It is a vibrant expression of everyday life culminated in the dark undertones and earthiness of an enthusiastically unwavering, yet convincing image of bygone days, fairytales and dreams".

[#5 posted by anhedonicgaze , January 27, 2008 9:19 PM]

pretentious drivel for sure and it doesn't look much like him either. entertaining for the simple-minded though, I guess.

[#6 posted by Beanolini , January 28, 2008 1:20 AM]

Ms Jackson created a BBC TV series, Doubletake, a couple of years ago. It was presented as comedy at the time. The CCTV/amateur style of the filming did a little to hide any inaccuracies in physical appearance...

[#7 posted by alya , January 28, 2008 2:35 AM]

:-)Art is art - it's hard to argue about it.

Alya,
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[#8 posted by Xodarap , January 28, 2008 8:40 AM]

I find it quite funny when someone says something like "pretentious drivel" and then follows it up with pure pretentious drivel! :P

[#9 posted by lechampiondumonde , January 28, 2008 10:15 PM]

I just got a copy of the book for $5 recently. Regular price $40? M+B Gallery in LA generally has some pretty funny/cool stuff so hopefully people check out other parts of the gallery's website.