Overview

Why do we care so desperately about famous people? In this stunning book, photographs of celebrity impersonators are juxtaposed with narratives and quotations dealing with our cultural obsession with fame, in an era in which tabloids and gossip blogs reign supreme, and personalities like Paris, Lindsay, and Jessica are superstars because of—not in spite of—their personal lives.

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Brian Howell is a photographer whose work has been exhibited extensively in Canada, the U.S. and recently in Italy; his first book, One Ring Circus, was about small town wrestling circuits. He lives in Delta, BC Canada. Norbert Ruebsaat is a poet and a communications professor at Simon Fraser University (Burnaby, BC Canada). Stephen Osborne is the publisher of Geist, an award-winning cultural magazine in Canada, and the co-founder of Arsenal Pulp Press.

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