The story behind Sandro Miller’s new photo exhibit, “Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich,” which opens this weekend at the Catherine Edelman Gallery, begins 17 years ago when Miller first met John Malkovich at the Steppenwolf Theatre, where Malkovich, a founding member of the company, was appearing in The Libertine and Miller was taking promotional photos. The two hit it off. In time, Malkovich would consider Miller his favorite photographer, and Miller would consider the actor his favorite subject. Malkovich proved just as expressive in front of Miller’s camera as he was onstage or on-screen. “I can push interesting buttons with John, and he will go there,” Miller says. “I don’t have that kind of connection with anyone else.”
He was fearless, Miller says, unafraid of being photographed naked or as a woman or even as Diane Arbus’s creepy twin girls. “If you had told me a year ago that he would appear as Marilyn Monroe three different times, I would have said, ‘Right.’ But John Malkovich is the most confident man in the world.”
11/9-1/31/15 Catherine Edelman Gallery 300 W. Superior 312-266-2350edelmangallery.com Free
