Alison Jackson "Trump Putin"
Alison Jackson "Trump Putin" 2020
Photography, Archival Pigment Print
Dimensions: 12 x 16in, Printed on 20 x 24in
Limited edition of 5 + 2AP
Signed on Verso, Includes certificate of authenticity
Alison Jackson, a contemporary, BAFTA and multi award-winning artist, photographer and filmmaker explores the cult of celebrity – an extraordinary phenomenon manufactured by the media, publicity industries and the public figures themselves. Jackson works across all arts and media platforms – including museums, galleries, television, publishing, digital. Jackson has won and was nominated for BAFTA for her BBC 2 series Doubletake and collected awards from 'Infinity', the Photographers’ Gallery, 'The Best of the Best,' and 'Creative Circle' over the years. She is an original Tedster and presented TED Talks worldwide, including Cannes Lions, Design Indaba, and many universities UAL, RCA, Goldsmiths and has been featured in Who’s Who amongst others. Four collections of her photographic work have been published by Penguin, Taschen and Stern Portfolio. Jackson has made extensive portraits of actors, celebrities, and public figures (real ones!) and is building a collection at the National Portrait Gallery, The Parliamentary Art Collection, London; The National Portrait Gallery, London; SF MOMA, San Francisco; The Royal College of Art, London; Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Brussels; The Frances Foundation Paris; The International Centre of Photography; Pompidou Centre, and Fotografiska worldwide. Actors and celebrities include: Sir Elton John, Eddie Redmayne, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rosamund Pike, Gillian Anderson, Ralph Fiennes, Charles Dance, Tom Ford and many well-known politicians including Boris Johnson and David Cameron. Jackson raises questions about how we can’t tell what is real or not anymore, and how we don’t care. She creates convincingly realistic photographs, films and sculptures depicting celebrities doing things in private, images that we have all imagined but never seen before, using cleverly styled lookalikes. One foot in truth and the other one foot in fantasy. Jackson raises questions about how we think we know celebrities intimately but very few of us have met them for real. Her work is an exploration of our insatiable desire to get personal with public personalities, raising questions about the power and seductive nature of imagery inciting voyeurism and our need to believe – you can’t rely on your perception when it comes to photography. Jackson challenges our preconceptions through imagery.
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