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Born 1949. Known for: Photography.
John Stezaker was born in 1949. He was a part of the revolutionary first wave of British Conceptual artists. John Stezaker is celebrated for his photo-collages and use of appropriated imagery. Coming... Read full biography
John Stezaker was born in 1949. He was a part of the revolutionary first wave of British Conceptual artists. John Stezaker is celebrated for his photo-collages and use of appropriated imagery. Coming to prominence in the 1970s, during the heyday of the Pictures Generation, he drew upon the... Read full biography
John Stezaker was born in 1949. He was a part of the revolutionary first wave of British Conceptual artists. John Stezaker is celebrated for his photo-collages and use of appropriated imagery. Coming to prominence in the 1970s, during the heyday of the Pictures Generation, he drew upon the aesthetics of Dada and Surrealism, as well as the works of Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke. His manipulation of found photographic materials was deeply influential to the Young British Artists who emerged... Read full biography
John Stezaker was born in 1949. He was a part of the revolutionary first wave of British Conceptual artists. John Stezaker is celebrated for his photo-collages and use of appropriated imagery. Coming to prominence in the 1970s, during the heyday of the Pictures Generation, he drew upon the aesthetics of Dada and Surrealism, as well as the works of Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke. His manipulation of found photographic materials was deeply influential to the Young British Artists who emerged during the 1990s, and would lead to his receipt of the prestigious Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize in 2012. In his Marriage series of 2006-2007, Stezaker spliced together publicity shots of classic film stars, creating uncanny, chimeric... Read full biography
John Stezaker was born in 1949. He was a part of the revolutionary first wave of British Conceptual artists. John Stezaker is celebrated for his photo-collages and use of appropriated imagery. Coming to prominence in the 1970s, during the heyday of the Pictures Generation, he drew upon the aesthetics of Dada and Surrealism, as well as the works of Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke. His manipulation of found photographic materials was deeply influential to the Young British Artists who emerged during the 1990s, and would lead to his receipt of the prestigious Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize in 2012. In his Marriage series of 2006-2007, Stezaker spliced together publicity shots of classic film stars, creating uncanny, chimeric figures that recall the ‘Exquisite Corpses’ of Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray. Like artefacts from a lost world, these hybrid beings are simultaneousl... Read full biography
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