John Stezaker

John Stezaker takes classic movie stills, vintage postcards and book illustrations and makes collages to give old images a new meaning. By adjusting, inverting and slicing separate pictures together he creates unique new works of art. Through Stezaker's juxtapositions, he adopts the context and content of the original image and turns it into his own witty and poignant meanings.

I like Stezakers 'Marriage' series. He uses publicity shots of famous film stars, overlaps the faces creating new unified characters. He joins the faces together focusing on the facial features such as the eyes or nose. The end result looks comical and weirdly attractive. The images are very bizarre and uncanny, I cannot help myself from liking them. They look confusing but seem to fit together perfectly.

Stezaker's work is currently on exhibiton at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, I have booked to see the exhibition so more information will follow in the next few weeks!