Artist Recreates Iconic Photographs Using John Malkovich as Subject

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Two years ago, photographer Sandro Miller wanted to pay homage to his mentor, Irving Penn, by recreating Penn’s iconic portrait of author Truman Capote.

That’s when he realized that his friend, actor John Malkovich, looked a bit like Capote. Since then, Malkovich, who has known Miller for more than 17 years, has become the subject of several iconic portraits recreated by Miller as tribute to some of the world’s most masterful photographers.

“For me, John is a beautiful, clean canvas ready for paint. He is extremely open minded, never fearful and always willing to go to places most actors of his caliber would avoid,” Miller wrote in a press release. “His willingness to play dress up, and become the subject of some of the most iconic images from history, is a true gift.”

The show, called Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich: Homage to Photographic Masters, will open at the Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago on Nov. 7 and run through Jan. 31. If you can’t get enough of John Malkovich, then watch out for the actor/muse’s exclusive interview with French publication 7-POST and French newspaper Liberation.

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Arthur Sasse / Albert Einstein Sticking Out His Tongue (1951), 2014Sandro Miller courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery Chicago
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Alberto Korda / Che Guevara (1960), 2014Sandro Miller courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery Chicago
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Bert Stern / Marilyn in Pink Roses (from The Last Session, 1962), 2014Sandro Miller courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery Chicago
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Albert Watson / Alfred Hitchcock with Goose (1973), 2014Sandro Miller courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery Chicago
MALKOVICH, MALKOVICH, MALKOVICH: HOMAGE TO PHOTOGRAPHIC MASTERS
Andy Warhol / Self Portrait (Fright Wig) (1986), 2014Sandro Miller courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery Chicago
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Annie Leibovitz / John Lennon and Yoko Ono (1980), 2014Sandro Miller courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery Chicago
MALKOVICH, MALKOVICH, MALKOVICH: HOMAGE TO PHOTOGRAPHIC MASTERS
Dorothea Lange / Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (1936), 2014Sandro Miller courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery Chicago
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rving Penn / Pablo Picasso, Cannes, France (1957), 2014Sandro Miller courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery Chicago
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Gordon Parks / American Gothic, Washington, D.C. (1942), 2014Sandro Miller courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery Chicago
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Philippe Halsman / Salvador Dalí (1954), 2014Sandro Miller courtesy of Catherine Edelman Gallery Chicago

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