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38 quotes by Alison Jackson

Alison Jackson (born Alison Mowbray-Jackson, 15 May 1970) 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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You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch... →

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I don't really like using ridicule as a form of humor.

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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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The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the sex... →

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When Princess Diana died, I couldn't understand why people were mourning her death in such an enormous, hysterical way when they didn't... →

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I can't remember exactly how old I was when my parents gave me my first camera, but it was a Canon, and I was certainly far too young to have... →

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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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Photography seduces us into thinking we can believe photographs, whereas we can't really believe that a picture can tell us any kind of truth at... →

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Art work is inconclusive. It opens your mind up. At least, that's what I hope it does. And advertising, using exactly the same photograph, closes... →

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

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I'm particularly interested in how you can't rely on your own perception.

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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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