20Specificationssize 101/4 121/2in. (26 32 cm)128 pages60 colour illustrationshardcoverISBN 978-88-572-4401-3 35.00, 45.00PublicationNovember 2020Meryl Streep is a myth, even without the celebrated portrait taken by An-nie Leibovitz in 1981, and another myth John Malkovich pays hom-age to her talent with Sandro Miller in a project designed to bring to life theworks of master photographers that have changed our collective imagination.In this original project, Sandro Miller uses the celebrated actor to recreate someof the most famous portraits of all time. This bookis a sort of magic formulawith no need for Photoshop, relying simply on the actor's chameleon-like talentto open the doors of our imagination. Thanks to meticulous make-up sessions,costumes and sets, coming after months of research, Malkovich becomes Al-bert Einstein sticking his tongue out at Arthur Sasse (1951), Che Guevara ascaptured by Alberto Korda (1960), Jack Nicholson behind the mask of theJoker by Herb Ritts (1988). Malkovich also represents Robert Mappletho-rpe's transgressiveSelfand animates Andres Serrano's plastic crucifix (1987)and Andy Warhol's pop art. With a fur wrapped around his head, Malkovichbecomes Mick Jagger as depicted by David Bailey (1964) and even transformsinto Richard Avedon's famousBeekeeper. A homage to photographic masters. For this project, Miller and his team painstakingly researched and preparedrecreations of iconic photographs that he says influenced him deeply as a pho-tographer