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‘Rankin Live’ at the Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick Lane, London E1 6QL until September 18, 2009. Above: Debbie Harry © Rankin
Rankin Live is a show of two halves. For glamour junkies there is Rankin Retrospective, the first ever of Rankin's career, which takes in his fashion and celebrity photographs since co-founding Dazed & Confused magazine in 1991. Shot with good-natured irreverence, here you'll find Vivienne Westwood and Damien Hirst pulling silly faces, Debbie Harry avoiding the camera (above), Blur transformed into Pop Art and Hugh Grant cracking on to a mannequin. If you're suffering from celebrity fatigue, however, there's also Shoot Me, Rankin! running alongside it, an ongoing project in which 1,000 normal people (as it were) can walk in and have their portrait taken and added to the exhibition. Together, they make one vast and unusually inclusive show.







