John Stezaker

'John Stezaker’s work re-examines the various relationships to the photographic image: as documentation of truth, purveyor of memory, and symbol of modern culture. In his collages, Stezaker appropriates images found in books, magazines, and postcards and uses them as ‘readymades’. Through his elegant juxtapositions, Stezaker adopts the content and contexts of the original images to convey his own witty and poignant meanings.' 

'By adjusting, inverting and slicing separate pictures together to create unique new works of art, Stezaker explores the subversive force of found images.'

'Mask XIII'  2006  Black and white photograph on paper and postcard on paper 

'Untitled' 1989  Colour photograph and digital print on paper

'Third Person'  1988-9  Photo etching on paper and printed paper

'Marriage (Film Portrait Collage) XXVIII'  2007  Collage

'Sense II'  2006  Collage

'Marriage IV'  2006  Collage

'Mask XXIX'  2006  Collage

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http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/john-stezaker