John Stezaker, Collages

John Stezaker takes imagery from film stills, publicity photographs, studio portraits and postcards etc and uses them to create images that form new identities and portray a new awareness of fantasy within the media.

He uses images of landscape scenes and positions them very purposely over portraits to suggest psychological and emotional states.

This image is named ‘Mask XXXV’ and shows the opening of a cave looking out on a blue sky placed over the centre of a lady’s face, the purpose of this seemingly strange combination links the materiality of the landscape with the physicality and possible feelings of the woman.  

Stezaker’s unique approach aims to highlight to the viewer their own method of receiving the imagery and plays with our own capacities to form the meaning within the creative image.

John Stezaker has just opened a new exhibition of his work at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, open until the 18^th march. For more info on this exhibition visit this link - http://www.timeout.com/london/art/event/210231/john-stezakerhttp://www.timeout.com/london/art/event/210231/john-stezaker.

I will be making a visit soon and am looking forward to seeing a wider range of his distinct montages. Images sourced from http://www.landezine.com/index.php/2011/01/collages-by-john-stezaker/, also information has been gathered from the same web page and also from the 'timeout' link above.