John Stezaker: At the Edge of Pictures

icoJohn Stezaker (born 1949) is one of the most distinguished voices in the history of image-based collage. Since the 1970s Stezaker’s work has occupied a unique position in the face of radical changes in the economy of popular visual culture and its implications on the value of ‘found’ imagery in art. Faced with the post-conceptual crisis of the mid-1970s, Stezaker came to reject the prevailing tendency among his British contemporaries towards agitprop photomontage, promoted in the name of punk, anarchism and second-wave feminism.