Open Eye gallery: Simpkin, Lueck and Martin Parr's Painted Photographs - in pictures

Francine in the living room (2009)
To create her series The Once and Future Queens, Los Angeles based artist Simone Lueck placed an advertisement on the website Craigslist, 'seeking fabulous, striking, interesting older woman to pose as glamorous movie star' Photograph: Simone Lueck

Sharon at the front door (2009)
Many of the 150 older women who answered Lueck's ad, and subsequently posed for her in scenarios of their own making, gravitated to Los Angeles during the old Hollywood era of starlets and bombshells Photograph: Simone Lueck

Mara as Brigitte Bardot (2009)
Mara, the blond woman who appears in this and several other shots, is actually the daughter of a Warner Brothers starlet called Mae Madison Photograph: Simone Lueck

Mara chases her lover, in silk (2009)
Though Mara, like the others photographed, never made it in Hollywood, she is given licence by Lueck's camera to behave as if she did, mimicking the likes of Brigitte Bardot and Ingrid Bergman in her languorous, exaggeratedly sexy poses. The photographs manage to be at once affectionate and parodic Photograph: Simone Lueck

With Elizabeth Hurley and Hugh Grant in 1999.
Simone Lueck's shots are shown alongside Richard Simpkin's as part of Richard & Famous, a show which takes its punning title from the photographs of Simpkin, an obsessive fan turned self-styled artist. His work consists of snapshots of himself alongside an array of more than 2,000 celebrities Photograph: Richard Simpkin

With Jack Nicholson in 2007.
Simpkin's show, writes O'Hagan 'consists, in effect, of the same tropes over and over: the same pose, the same smile, the same look of bemused patience from the object of his attention' Photograph: Richard Simpkin

With Heath Ledger in 1999 Photograph: Richard Simpkin

With INXS in 1989 Photograph: Richard Simpkin

Marilyn Monroe with glasses - 3 January 1960 - Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable, still from 'How to Marry a Millionaire'.
Also at the Open Eye gallery, Parr is showing what he calls Painted Photographs, images he has amassed over the years from flea markets and second-hand shops. 'Painted', says O'Hagan, 'is perhaps not the right word since most of these old film stills and publicity shots have been marked in what looks like Tippex and chinagraph pencil by newspaper and magazine picture editors or printers' Photograph: From the private collection of Martin Parr

John Lennon & Yoko Ono 9 April 1970.
As time has gone by, these functional photographs, taken between the 1930s and the 1970s and often used time and again as press shots, have attained a new life as a kind of found art Photograph: From the private collection of Martin Parr

James Dean published in the Daily Herald, 3 January 1957, still from 'Giant' Photograph: From the private collection of Martin Parr

Marlene Dietrich - published in the Daily Mirror, 13 April 1958 Photograph: From the private collection of Martin Parr

Muhammad Ali - Press Association agency photograph, 22 August 1981, press call for 'The Greatest Arrives for Signing' Photograph: From the private collection of Martin Parr