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John Stezaker

John Stezaker (b. 1949, in Worcester), is an English artist.

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. 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." 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?" 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."

Fotografo e artista inglese. I suoi lavori sono surreali e spesso usa come tecnica il collage attraverso cui crea opere interessanti al limite con la Pop art. Julian Stallabrass disse di lui “Il contrasto che è nel cuore dei suoi lavori non è tra la rappresentazione e la realtà, ma tra gli elementi primitivi della cultura popolare, e la visione ironica e cosciente delle immagini post-moderno”.