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Alison Jackson

English, Artist

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Advertising Your Least

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 things down. It makes it conclusive. It sells a product, and that is its primary function.

- Alison Jackson

Process Perfect Social

Finding the perfect lookalike to work with is crucial and a lengthy process. We have our regulars, but we also use social media all the time to find people. It's amazing who you can unearth on Twitter.

- Alison Jackson

Country I Think Big

I think my parents had in mind that I would settle down at quite a young age, but I decided that being a housewife in a big country house wasn't for me. I wanted to leave the country, head for London and see what the world had to offer.

- Alison Jackson

Very Lucky Always

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

- Alison Jackson

Humor Form Using

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

- Alison Jackson

Young Old Certainly

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 such a good camera.

- Alison Jackson

Childhood Very Months

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.

- Alison Jackson

Use James Photos

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.'

- Alison Jackson

Politics Celebrity Image

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.

- Alison Jackson

Queen Blank Extent

I am fascinated by the Royal Family because they are shrouded in mystique, and the Queen, and to a certain extent William, represent fabulous blank canvases. I find the Prince of Wales less fascinating because he spills the beans and we know too much about him.

- Alison Jackson

Celebrity Image Big

Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.

- Alison Jackson

Very Other Lenses

Among other things, I use a Samsung mobile phone, a very bad quality video camera, and an old Olympus with extremely bad Sigma lenses.

- Alison Jackson

Believe Tell Kind

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 all.

- Alison Jackson

Art Some Films

I'm a contemporary artist and I show in art galleries and museums. I show a number of photographs and films, but I also make television programs, books and some appetizing, all with the same concept.

- Alison Jackson

More Like Star

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.

- Alison Jackson

Think About Bit

A lot of people who look at my photographs think it is an easy joke, but it does take a bit of thinking about.

- Alison Jackson

I Am Very Britain

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

- Alison Jackson

Rely How Particularly

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

- Alison Jackson

Hate Parking Only

The only people I really hate are parking attendants.

- Alison Jackson

Celebrity Themselves

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

- Alison Jackson

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