Who is Who

Niklaus Spoerri
9783869841762 / 3869841761
Who is Who

Who is Who

Niklaus Spoerri
9783869841762 / 3869841761
Publisher Moderne Kunst Nürnberg
Edition Flexibound , 208 Pages
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Johnny Depp stands in a small front room surrounded by incongruously cheap furnishings; Luciano Pavarotti raises a glass of wine to the camera in a similarly tiny room; Bruce Willis gives the camera his signature squint from his kitchen table; Frank Zappa buttons up his suit in a hallway mirror; Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones poses with his bullwhip on the lawn of his back garden. All of these celebrities are, of course, lookalikes, professional doubles portrayed in the comfort of their own homes by Niklaus Spoerri. Spoerri began the project in 2007, fascinated by the qualities of eeriness, inauthenticity and verisimilitude inherent to their profession and physical appearance. “I leave it up to the subjects themselves as to how much they explicitly want to reveal about themselves and their lookalike figure, and observe how they project themselves in front of the camera, how few or how many signs they make to reveal ‘their own’ original person within,” says Spoerri. Other “celebrities” portrayed here are Bono, Joan Collins, Jamie Lee Curtis, Whoopi Goldberg, Liza Minelli, Lionel Ritchie and Sharon Stone. Every one of Spoerri’s superb portraits compels a baffled or bemused doubletake.

Specifications

Book title Who is Who
Photographer Niklaus Spoerri
ISBN 10 3869841761 / 3-86984-176-1       
ISBN 13 9783869841762 / 978-3-86984-176-2
Publisher Moderne Kunst Nürnberg
Publish date Apr 2012
Book format Flexibound
Pages 208 Pages
Dimensions 22,75 x 25,5 cm / 9 x 10 inches

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