Slater Bradley & Ed Lachman: Look Up and Stay in Touch (Hardcover)

Look Up and Stay in Touch presents the final works in artist Slater Bradley s decade-long doppelganger project. Bradley (born 1975) has explored the way cultural icons are so imbued with myth that they become a mirror image (doppelgänger) of the self. Earlier works in the series include faked tribute videos in which Bradley s doppelganger Ben Brock performs as late musicians Ian Curtis Michael Jackson and Kurt Cobain. These final two works in the series focus on another of Bradley s obsessions: the actor River Phoenix. The installations were produced in collaboration with Academy Award-nominated cinematographer and filmmaker Ed Lachman director of photography for the film Dark Blood an unreleased 1993 film starring Phoenix that was in production at the time of the actor s death. The video installations Shadow (2010) and Dead Ringer (2011) are based on the film and the latter features an appearance by Bradley himself.