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...brilliance of the work rests not just upon the quality of the print's resolution, however, but also upon this conceptual turn: the photo is not really of the Emperor, but of his wax figure at Madame Tussaud's museum in London. Wax statues look almost laughably fake in person, but Sugimoto exploits the power (or perhaps the weakness) of the camera's single eye to flatten perspective and encourage illusion, thereby creating an image that looks more real, more human than the wax object he is photographing. In the next room are similar shots of King Henry VIII...
...Anything but superficial, Sugimoto relentlessly probes such issues as the difference between what we consider real and fake. In his Diorama series, for example, he turns his attention to those hokey installations at natural-history museums with painted backgrounds and stuffed-animal wildlife scenes or mannequins of Neanderthals hunting. As in Portraits, the dioramas look far more realistic in Sugimoto's presentation than in the museums themselves. Among these delightfully jarring, anachronistic images is a pseudodocumentary photo of Cro-Magnons building a hut. Sugimoto is well aware of the irony that he, like the creators of such dioramas, is practicing...
...that—we worked hard.” The Crimson offense finally broke out of its scoring funk in the third period. With a player from each team in the box for coincidental minors, sophomore forward Jon Pelle sold Big Green netminder Mike Devine on a hard shot fake from the left circle and then easily skated around him to net a four-on-four tally at 5:33. Just 35 seconds later, Harvard was awarded a power play opportunity when Dartmouth winger Jarrett Sampson was given a two-minute minor for holding defenseman Dylan Reese near...
...Fake Musician Has Regained his Popularity and Can Get Back to His Roots...
...video’s concept is adapted from the ancient Japanese art of bunraku puppetry. A team of “puppeteers,” led by comedian David Cross, manipulates the (seemingly) catatonic band members’ limbs, guiding them through a fake performance in a comically undersized garage...