Lynn Hershman Leeson

Hero Sandwich

1981-88

Publicity photographs of male and female celebrities are merged by printing layered negatives, the result is then painted. Carefully chosen and constructed as composites, the images fuse the stars’ gestures and expressions. View selected images from the series below.

Hero Sandwich, Monroe/Freud - 1988

Rowlands/Bogart (Male Dominant), 1981, photograph, acrylic, 55.9 x 38.1 cm

Hero Sandwich, Monroe/Freud - 1988

Bogart/Rowlands (Female Dominant), 1982, photograph, acrylic, 101.7 x 76.2 cm

Hero Sandwich, Monroe/Freud - 1988

Hero Sandwich, Monroe/Freud, 1988, acrylic on photograph, 30.5 x 45.7 cm.