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John Stezaker, Illustrated Portraits, Richard Hamilton, Growth And Evolution, Gcse Photography, Growth And Decay, Photo Montage, Out Of Place, Montage Photo

John Stezaker’s surreal, handmade collages—comprised of film stills, publicity portraits, and postcards collected from thrift stores and bookshops—are masterful studies in contradiction. They are familiar and nostalgic, but also unexpected and strange. Like a Coen Brothers film or Flannery O’Connor short story, they walk that compelling line between comedy and tragedy.

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Photograph by John Stezaker. By making a very small change to the publicity image of this actress Stezaker suggests a more disturbing, less confident image. The additional strip in the area of the eyes also picks up the pattern stripes, at a slight angle, of the figure's clothing. John Stezaker, Photo Montage, Out Of Place, Montage Photo, Artist Models, Glitch Art, Collage Artists, Gcse Art, Artistic Photography

The pleasure of looking at John Stezaker's work is the shiver of seeing something banal made strange. Studio shots of long-dead actors and hand tinted postcards of waterfalls and landscapes are hackneyed and banal. But when Stezaker lays one of these tired images on top of another, or just slices or folds into a photograph, a strange alchemy takes place. Jolted, we see both the material reality of the photo - look it's been chopped up! while still being seduced by the tidal pull of its…

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John Stezaker | Artist | Zabludowicz Collection John Stezaker, Hybrid Creatures, Eadweard Muybridge, Semester 2, Art Diary, Royal College Of Art, Hollywood Actors, British Art, London Art

John Stezaker appropriates images found in books, magazines and postcards, using them as readymades which he subjects to deceptively simple alterations. Splicing, cutting and pasting the printed ephemera he collects, Stezaker explores the collective memory of twentieth century popular culture and the subtle tensions and passions of interpersonal relations. From still surfaces he opens up psychological chasms.Producing his work alongside a long career teaching critical studies at the Royal…

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