After studying fine art photography at London's Royal College of Art, Alison Jackson shocked the world with her award-winning BBC TV series, "Double Take." She has exhibited her artwork in contemporary art galleries and museums throughout Europe and North America, and also works in the medium of mass communication, via films, advertising, television, and books.
EDUCATION
MA Fine Art Photography. The Royal College of Art London SW7
BA (Hons) Fine Art Sculpture Chelsea College of Art, Chelsea, London SW3
AWARDS
2004 ICP. Infinity Award for photography. NY
2004 BAFTA Nomination for DoubleTake BBC2 TV Series
2003 The Best of the Best Award for Photography on Schweppes Campaign (Lord Puttnam)
2002 BAFTA for Innovation. DoubleTake BBC
2002/3 Campaign Awards. Gold and 2 Silvers for Schweppes
2002 Creative Circle Award for Schweppes
2002 The Best of the Best Award for Photography on Schweppes. (Alan Parker)
1999 The Photographers Gallery Award. London
1999 Creative Camera Award London.
SOLO AND GROUP ART EXHIBITIONS
2008 Hamiltons Gallery, London
2007 Confidential, M+B, Los Angeles
2007 Paris Photo. M+B.
2005/6 KunstForum. Vienna. Superstars. Von Warhol bis Madonna
2005 Julie Saul Gallery New York
2004 Hayward Gallery. London About Face. Photography and the Death of the
Portrait
2004 Photo London. Pro-gram Gallery.
2004 Le Mois De La Photo Montreal Canada
2003 The Richard Salmon Gallery, London ‘Mental Images on War'
2003 Musee de L'Eysee. Lusanne. Switzerland
2003 ICP International Center of Photography. New York.
2002/5 Paris Photo. Louvre. Paris France. The Photographers Gallery/Julie Saul NY
2002 The Musee de la Photographie a Charleroi, Brussels.
2001 Jerwood Space , London . ‘Mental Images'
2000 Art 2000 London.
2000 Edinburgh Festival, UK
2000 The Richard Salmon Gallery London
1999 The Richard Salmon Gallery London
1999 The Royal Festival Hall. London.
TELEVISION
2007 CH4 Blair: I'm a straight sorta guy….
2006 CH4 AND MORE 4 Sven: The Cash, The Coach, and His Lovers
2006 CH4 Tony Blair Rock Star
2004/5 Saturday Night Live. NBC. USA Producer/Director
2005 CH4 London. The Secret Election Writer, Producer, Director
2005 CH4 Royal Wedding special. Writer, Producer, Director
2003 DOUBLETAKE BBC2 TV Xmas special Writer, co-Producer, Director
2003 DOUBLETAKE. BBC2. TV series. Created 6 part series Writer, co Producer, Director
2002 DOUBLETAKE. BBC2. Creator, Writer , Director BAFTA
PUBLICATIONS
2007 Taschen Book of Photographs by AJ. Autumn
2004/5 The Guardian Newspaper. London . Weekly Photograph
2003 PRIVATE Book of Photographs by Alison Jackson. Penguin UK only
Contributor to the book ‘Voyeur' Harper Collins
Contributor to the book ‘The Art of Barbie' Elton John's Aid's Foundation.
2003 Art in the Age of Mass Media by John Walker. Critque.
2002 Art and Celebrity by John Walker. Critque
LECTURES/TALKS
2006 MAK Euroforum Vienna
2005 National Portrait Gallery. London
2005 Design Indaba Cape Town
2004 Tate Modern. Photography and Celebrity. London
2004 Hayward Gallery. London. Panel on About Face with David Mellor, Charlotte Cotton
London
2004 Wolfsberg. Zurich
2003 Tate Britain. Art and Celebrity London, National Portrait Gallery. Edinburgh TV
Festival workshop includes ICA, RCA, Art and Business. RIBA London, Barbican, The
Royal College of Art. Mental Images series in all forms. D&AD Advertising Workshop, The
Royal Geographical Society. Real Artists work in Advertising not in the Fine Arts, The Slade
College of Art/Southampton University/ Kent Institute/ Camberwell Royal College of Art
London.
PERFORMANCE
2005/6 Barneys Xmas Windows NY. Photographs
2004 Holt Renfrew windows. Toronto Film Festival for Vanity Fair.
2003 Selfridges windows. London, ‘Blair Rehearses his Speech whilst in the Sauna'
AWARDS JUDGING London
2005 BAFTA London. Gold.
2005 D&AD Photography Foreman
2004 ICA Becks' Futures Student Award
2004 D&AD Student Awards
2003 Campaign Press Award
2003/2004 Best of the Best Awards. IPA.
2003 The National Portrait Gallery. The Schweppes Photography Award
Le livre de Alison Jackson nous offre l'apogée des attentes d'un paparazzi, une forme de graal du photographe people:
Le président Georges W. Bush tirant à la carabine sur des portraits de Vladimir Poutine et Hillary Clinton, Ben Laden cherchant entre les rayons d'un centre commercial une teinture pour les cheveux...
Le terme Paparazzi vient d'un film de 1960 de Federico Fellini, La dolce Vita. Dans ce film le héros, Marcello, qui n'est autre que Marcello Mastroianni, a pour compagnon un jeune photographe à l'affût du nom de Paparazzo.
Le terme est aujourd'hui universel et définit le fait de gagner sa vie au dépend de celles des autres, d'être rémunéré en fonction de l'intimité que l...
William Ewing, Will Self and Charles Glass
Taschen, 2007
Edited by Alison Jackson
Language: English, French, German
Hardcover, 11.5 x 9.4 x 1.2 inches, 264 pages, $50.00, ISBN 978-3822846384
Daring doppelgängers
What you see in this book is not "real"
Alison Jackson has photographed the Queen of England on the toilet, George Bush and Tony Blair chatting in the sauna, Mick Jagger doing gymnastics, and Monica Lewinsky lighting Bill Clinton's cigar. Or has she? The likenesses are uncanny, but of course, her subjects are look-alikes. Her photos demonstrate that while seeing is believing, the truth is another story entirely. In her work, Jackson says, "Likeness becomes real and fantasy touches on the believable. The viewer is suspended in disbelief. I try to highlight the psychological relatio...
Avec Alison Jackson, l’artiste invitée par la Fondation Francès, l’exposition ICÔNES explore les possibilités de l’image et les limites de notre esprit critique. Avec un ton irrévérencieux et humoristique, Alison Jackson trompe l’œil pour mieux nous livrer la Vérité des images. Avec elle, tout devient plausible. Ses œuvres sont mises en dialogue avec celles d’autres artistes de la collection Francès de David LaChapelle, Martin Le Chevallier et Eugenio Merino.
Au fur et à mesure que l’image est devenue essentielle dans la construction de l’Image des marques et des institutions ou dans les discours des politiques et des médias, elle est devenue truquée et traqueuse. Truquée...