John Malkovich Re-Creates Photographic History in Photographer Sandro Miller’s New Work

Guy covered in ants

 

“Migrant Mother, 1936”, Re-Creation of a photo by Dorothea Lange

In a wonderful collaboration between photographer Sandro Miller and actor John Malkovich the team has created a “Homage to Photographic Masters”. In 2013 photographer Sandro Miller decided to do a project honoring the men and women who had influenced his photographic career. After selection thirty-five images to emulate, Sandro contacted actor John Malkovich, who agreed to participate.

“Migrant Mother, 1936”, (left) photo by Dorothea Lange – Recreation by Sandro Miller and Malkovich. Dorothea Lange photo is in public domain.

Renowned photographer Sandro Miller along with Malkovich as his dashing unisex model has recreated some of the most iconic portraits in a series called “Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to photographic masters. ”

The series puts Malkovich’s masterful acting talents front and center. Miller re-creates each portrait’s amazing lighting, mood and composition perfectly, while Malkovich replicates the subject’s emotions and expressions. And it was all done without Photoshop!

Malkovich as Iving Penn’s, “Turman Capote NYC, 1948”

 

Malkovich recreates “Smoke and Viel, Paris, 1958” original photo was by William Kline

 

Ronald Fischer, Beekeeper, Davis California 1981, a re-creation of Richard Avedon famous photo.

view original at https://www.avedonfoundation.org/the-work

Actor John Malkovich’s interpretation Diane Arbus photo originally in Smithsonian Magazine.

link to original:  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/a-fresh-look-at-diane-arbus-99861134/

After Horst P. Horst “Mainbocher Corset” 1939

Photographer Horst P. Horst (1906-99) created images that transcend fashion or time – he was a master of light, composition and atmospheric illusion, who conjured a world of sensual sophistication.

Link to original photograph:  https://www.1stdibs.com/art/photography/black-white-photography/horst-p-horst-mainbocher-corset/id-a_2807141/

Malkovich does Dali better than Dali.
Which is the real Dali? Left or Right?

 

After a photo of Ernest Hemingway by photographer Yousuf Karsh

Original Ernest Hemingway photograph by Yousuf Karsh – link:

https://karsh.org/photographs/ernest-hemingway/

 

After a photo of Andy Warhol

 

After a photo of Alfred Hitchcock

 

After a photo of Rolling Stones’ Mick Jagger

 

After a photo of Marilyn Monroe

 

After a photograph of Albert Einstein

 

After Double Fantasy album cover by John Lennon & Yoko Oho

 

After Gordon Parks’ American Gothic photograph

View original American Gothic – link: http://100photos.time.com/photos/gordon-parks-american-gothic

 

After Diane Arbus’ Identical Twins photograph.

 

After a famous portrait of Picasso

 

Warhol stole Marilyn Monroe’s image then overlayed flat colors, Malchavich and … captured the same effect without using any previous image.

 

After the film promotion photo of Jack Nickelson as “The Joker”

 

As Ernesto “Che” Guevara (Guerrillero Heroico: “Heroic Guerrilla Fighter”)

 

After Bert Stern’s famous draped nude of Marilyn Monroe

 

After the April 1968 of George Lois’s cover for Esquire Magazine, showing Muhammad Ali posing as the martyr St. Sebastian, an iconic image of the 60’s tying together the incendiary issues of the Vietnam War, race and religion.

(Source: sandrofilm.com | edelmangallery.com (petapixel), boredpanda.com, & Wikipedia)

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