Photographer Recreates Famous Portraits With John Malkovich As His Model


Sandro Miller, Dorothea Lange / Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (1936), 2014

Renowned photographer Sandro Miller has worked together with legendary Hollywood A-Lister John Malkovich many times, but when Miller wanted to celebrate the photography greats that had inspired and guided him, he had to do something special. So he, with Malkovich as his dashing unisex model, recreated some of those influential photographers’ most important portraits in a photo series called “Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to photographic masters.”

The series puts both Miller’s exceptional photography and Malkovich’s masterful acting talents front and center. Miller gets each amazing portrait’s lighting, mood and composition down perfectly, while Malkovich replicates the subject’s emotions and expressions so perfectly that the photos become nearly indistinguishable, regardless of the age or gender of the original subject. And it was all done without Photoshop!

More info: Sandro Miller, Catherine Edelman Gallery (h/t: boredpanda, petapixel)


Sandro Miller, Philippe Halsman / Salvador Dalí (1954), 2014


Sandro Miller, Albert Watson / Alfred Hitchcock with Goose (1973), 2014


Sandro Miller, Victor Skrebneski / Bette Davis (1971), Los Angeles Studio, 2014


Sandro Miller, Andy Warhol / Self Portrait (Fright Wig) (1986), 2014


Sandro Miller, Diane Arbus / Identical Twins, Roselle, New Jersey (1967), 2014


Sandro Miller, Gordon Parks / American Gothic, Washington, D.C. (1942), 2014


Sandro Miller, Yousuf Karsh / Ernest Hemingway (1957), 2014


Sandro Miller, Irving Penn / Pablo Picasso, Cannes, France (1957), 2014


Sandro Miller, Arthur Sasse / Albert Einstein Sticking Out His Tongue (1951), 2014


Sandro Miller, Alberto Korda / Che Guevara (1960), 2014


Sandro Miller, Annie Leibovitz / John Lennon and Yoko Ono (1980), 2014


Sandro Miller, Bert Stern / Marilyn in Pink Roses (from The Last Session, 1962), 2014


Sandro Miller, David Bailey / Mick Jagger “Fur Hood” (1964), 2014


Sandro Miller, Edward Sheriff Curtis / Three Horses (1905), 2014


Sandro Miller, Herb Ritts / Jack Nicholson, London (1988) (A), 2014

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