Quotes by Alison Jackson

About Alison Jackson:

Alison Jackson is an English artist known for her lookalike photographs of celebrities. She has won a BAFTA for BBC 2's series Doubletake. She has also had three collections of her photographic work published.
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I'm particularly interested in how you can't rely on your own perception.

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I had a very outdoorsy childhood. I was athletic and used to ride and do dressage. I could ride almost before I could walk. There is a picture of me at 18 months old sitting happily on the back of a donkey.

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I'm not really interested in the celebrity themselves. I'm interested in the perception of the celebrity.

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I'd like to take more pictures of real celebrities. It would be fabulous to photograph Brad Pitt. He's so good-looking and just such a star.

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I am very pro-royal. Britain without them would be a sadder place.

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Photography can be a deceitful, superficial medium that leads us into believing something even though we know it's not necessarily true. It lulls us into a false sense of complacency.

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If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text.

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You can't rely on your own perception when it comes to anything. You can always be proved wrong.

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It's always fun to put fake celebrities in unlikely situations, but somehow it's even more fun when politicians are involved.

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Career-wise, I feel very lucky to have always been able to follow my creative path.

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I suppose we carry photographs now, but I think it's rather wonderful that people used to carry drawings and watercolours. I wish people did that more often.

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I go up to people and ask if I can use them in my photos. Occasionally it is the person in question, as happened with James Hewitt. How embarrassing. He just laughed and said, 'You can't afford me.'

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The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the sex goddess, Camilla Parker Bowles is cast as the wicked witch, Che Guevara is the revolutionary. Celebrities ...

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Warhol was the ultimate voyeur, constantly observing people through the lens. He watched and listened, but did not participate. Behind the camera, Warhol was in control.

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There is a wall of myth around royals and A-list celebrities, and that makes us wonder what they are really like. We see them on magazine covers so often that we think we know them intimately, and we want to learn more. I like to burst that bubble a ...

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It's always difficult to see yourself as other people do, but I'm realistic about my appearance. I wasn't born with one of those pretty, pretty faces, so I've never been absorbed with the way I look. I just try to make the most of what I've got.

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When I am preparing my 'lookalike' photographs, I think about the character of the real people, because, if the photographs are going to be plausible, you have to convince the viewer that they could have happened.

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Photography acts as a teaser, suggesting we can know something that we can never know. And the more we can't obtain it, the more we want it.

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And I figured that he can be my ears and I can be his eyes. A good trade-off, don't you think?

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I'm really interested in how we view the public figure, what makes a public figure, what makes a celebrity, and how images make politicians, so I take an interest in politics, but it's really an interest in the image.

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Author Bio

  • NameAlison Jackson
  • DescriptionBritish photographer
  • Born1960
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionPhotographer