Basel-born Celebrities Were Photographed in the Style of Famous Photographers

Lucian Hunziker from Switzerland found out how the local celebrities would look if they were captured by the most famous photographers of the last 150 years.

“Basel in Portraits is my personal project on how to learn the best from the best” — Hunziker says in his Peta Pixel interview.

59 Basel-born celebrities who have made a mark in culture, sports, science and politics were photographed for the series. Among the faces that appear in the project are tennis star Roger Federer, Oscar-winning film producer Arthur Cohn, architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron.

The author photographed them imitating the style of Henri-Cartier Bresson, Andy Warhol, Peter Lindbergh, Anton Corbijn and other iconic photographers. The series will be published in a photobook titled Basel in Portraits.

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{“img”: “/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Hunziker_02.jpg”, “text”: “Helmut Hubacher, Politician and Journalist in the style of Platon.”},
{“img”: “/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Hunziker_03.jpg”, “text”: “Baschi, Singer in the style of Anton Corbijn.”},
{“img”: “/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Hunziker_04.jpg”, “text”: “Matthyas Jenny, Publisher, Author and Bookseller in the style of Diane Arbus.”},
{“img”: “/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Hunziker_05.jpg”, “text”: “Alain Claude Sulzer, Writer in the style of Henri Cartier-Bresson.”},
{“img”: “/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Hunziker_06.jpg”, “text”: “Annina Frey, TV Host in the style of Annie Leibovitz.”}