Nope. The answer isn't 'a tourist in an art gallery'.
Instead, say hello to Korean sculptor Osang Gwon.
Neither of these chaps is the artist, of course.
They are, in fact three dimensional sculptures fashioned out of hundreds of polaroid photos, attached to a blank skeleton/dummy. Life-size sculptures, by the way. This, my friends, is what ye get when collages break out off the flat page. Naturally, it all takes a huge amount of time and effort - and no small amount of patience on the part of the subject(s).
See this sculpture of Tom Chaplin from the band Keane?
I know he looks more than a little like Jimmy Carr in this (poor bugger), but ye can see just how much work has gone into this. According to O.G., he took between one and three thousand pictures per band member. All to promote their album, Perfect Symmetry.
Below, you can watch the maestro in action - just look at the expression on Chaplin's face. O.G. must have started at the head and worked his way down and be nearly finished. Nearly finished taking almost 3,000 Polaroid pictures. And don't forget; those cameras need very frequent loading.
Osang Gwon, talented wee so-and-so that he is, worked his way up from humble beginnings. Considering the pace of his work, he had to begin with subjects that didn't mind sitting rock-solid fer three hours or so - his family, in other words. As his talent and acclaim grew, Keane approached him for their promotional work and he's now being courted by the big names (like Nike) for advertising work.
I'll leave you with one final image. Here, O.G. stand in front of his sculpture of a mounted police officer. And yes, the horse was also snapped...
For more on this hugely talented guy, you can visit osang.net or drop by the page on Environmental Graffiti where I first came across his work.
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