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Photographer Recreates Iconic Photos With John Malkovich As The Main Subject

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.”

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

Litographs Tattoos: Wearable Tributes to Iconic Books

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A beautiful collection of (temporary) literary tattoos, and a chance to join the World’s Longest Tattoo Chain. The project titled “Litographs”, had their tattoos designed in the form of texts taken from 15 classic books such as The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Ulysses, and Les Misérables.
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8-Bit Inspired Paintings of Iconic Images

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Artist Adam Lister makes geometric 8-Bit inspired watercolor paintings based on iconic images from art history and pop culture. Continue reading »

Artists Recreate Iconic Posters of Movie Classics with Black Models

Matrix and American Beauty given new look by talented photographers Antoine Tempé and Omar Victor Diop.


The idea behind the Onomolliwood series is to pay tribute to iconic moments of cinema which have highly influenced the two talented photographers. Continue reading »

Iconic for Decades, Time Running out for Kodak

Kodak workers enter corporate headquarters in Rochester, New York, in this January 22, 2004 file photo. Eastman Kodak Co shares lost more than half their value on Sept 30, 2011 as the company hired a law firm well-known for bankruptcy cases, triggering speculation that the photography pioneer could file for bankruptcy.

Bye Bye Banksy! Iconic Painting Whitewashed by Bungling Worker After Building is Transformed into Muslim Centre.

Banksy’s artworks fetch hundreds of thousands of pounds and his graffiti is strewn across cities around the world.

But one man mistook the street art splashed on the side of his Muslim centre as vandalism and set about disguising it with white paint. Unbeknown to Saeed Ahmed the ‘Gorilla in a Pink Mask’ stencil had been a familiar landmark in the artist’s hometown of Bristol for over 10 years.

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Before: The ‘Gorilla in a Pink Mask’ Bansky artwork before it was painted over by Saeed Ahmed
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