Liberia-born and Los Angeles-based fashion model Deddeh Howard wants to promote more racial diversity in fashion advertising. For her new photo project, titled Black Mirror, Howard faithfully recreated major ad photos from top brands with herself as the model.
“We are bombarded everyday with flashy advertisement, billboards and television ads that try to inspire us […]. petapixel.com
Cased daguerreotypes are among the oldest photographic images in Australian gallery, library, and museum collections.
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For his project The Descendants, photographer Drew Gardner has been recreating famous historical portraits with the descendants of the subjects. For example, to recreate Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, arguably the best-known portrait painting in the world, Gardner located Irina Guicciardini Strozzi, the 15th great-granddaughter of Lisa Gherardini, who posed for Da Vinci. He attempted […]
Brooklyn-based photographer and graphic designer Alfra Martini has been taking famous album covers and recreating them with cats instead of humans. She calls the project The Kitten Covers. “Legendary albums from a world dominated by kittens,” says Martini, who owns two cats herself.
Here’s a short video showing how the British sci-fi TV show Doctor Who recreated the Beatles’ famous Abbey Road album cover photo. Since Abbey Road is an active two-way road in London, the team had to stop traffic at a crosswalk for about 90 seconds to nail the shot. The shoot was held back on […]