![John Stezaker
Stezaker is a contemporary artist from England. Excerpt from Wikipedia:
“His work is surreal in tone and is often made using collage and the appropriation of pre-existing images such as postcards, film stills, and publicity photographs.[2] Art historian Julian Stallabrass said, “The contrast at the heart of these works [by Stezaker] is not between represented and real, but between the unknowing primitives of popular culture, and the conscious, ironic artist and viewer of post-modern images.”[3] One work included in an exhibition at Salama-Caro Gallery, London, in 1991, depicted an image of a punch clock together with the caption “Why Spend Time On An Exhibition Like This?”[4] Colin Gleadell wrote in The Daily Telegraph in 2007 that Stezaker “is now being hailed as a major influence on the Young British Art movement.”[2]”
These early 1900’s photographs compositioned with postcards are an interesting exploration into form.](http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_li6pwzkBwC1qhircko1_500.jpg)
Stezaker is a contemporary artist from England. Excerpt from Wikipedia:
“His work is surreal in tone and is often made using collage and the appropriation of pre-existing images such as postcards, film stills, and publicity photographs.[2] Art historian Julian Stallabrass said, “The contrast at the heart of these works [by Stezaker] is not between represented and real, but between the unknowing primitives of popular culture, and the conscious, ironic artist and viewer of post-modern images.”[3] One work included in an exhibition at Salama-Caro Gallery, London, in 1991, depicted an image of a punch clock together with the caption “Why Spend Time On An Exhibition Like This?”[4] Colin Gleadell wrote in The Daily Telegraph in 2007 that Stezaker “is now being hailed as a major influence on the Young British Art movement.”[2]”
These early 1900’s photographs compositioned with postcards are an interesting exploration into form.
