John Stezaker recently exibited his work at the Whitechapel Gallery. His work combines old film stills and vintage postcards which are collaged together to create a new surreal image with a new meaning. Rather than a photographer i consider him an artist. As an artist i consider his work to not only be interesting to look at but it's very cleverly put together. Whilst looking at his exhibition i found that i started thinking about the meaning on a much deeper level, a level that you wouldn't have gone to with the original image. The titles of the works are very simple and are the starting point of my thoughts as to what the picture is trying to say. I think that John Stezaker wants to deliberatly ambiguou. The images speak for themselves as there are obvious themes of marriage and male and female roles.
My favourite images are the ones that combine head shots with landscapes. It makes me look through the faces to what lies beyond almost like a layer of them has been taken away and this is what is being revealed to us. This man looks like he has nothing. Does this mean his life is empty? Is he living in a world of darkness that he can't escape. The truth is we don't know. We are left to keep guessing and speculate which is the beauty of it. http://www.culture24.org.uk/art/art348600
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stezaker
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