Yeah - we actually saw the photographer bit. Kind of a nice idea but as you say, hardly groundbreaking!!! Certainly ridiculously 'bigged up' by the programme.
The only one I thought was any good was the Vermeer 'referenced' one - 'Woman reading a repossession order' or whatever by the window. That kind of added a different aspect & the reference to the Vermeer was nicely done. He didn't seem to have done anything like that with the others, just taken a photo that looked like a well-known painting, which just made me think - "so what???"
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Moth