Yasumasa Morimura

Yasumasa Morimura takes photos of world famous icons, whether they be paintings or actual people, and recreates them by photographing himself in the same poses.  He has been the Mona Lisa, Marilyn Monroe, Che Guevara and many more.
  Morimura constantly deals with how we perceive images.  Would we have found Marilyn Monroe as attractive if she was japanese....or a man? He plays with boundaries in a simplistic style, and creates very powerful thought provoking images.  He gets to be all these different personas every time he takes a photo, something which many people would love to be able to do.