John Stezaker

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Stezaker has been centrally influential in a number of developments in art over the last three decades; from Conceptual Art; New Image Art through to the contemporary interest in collage. Showing first as a part of the British Conceptual Art group in 'The New Art', 1972 (The first Hayward Annual), Stezaker's interest in the concept soon gave way to a long-term dedication to the image, finding new aesthetic allegiances with the image through working with found photographs. The 'Third Person' archive begins in the mid seventies with a probing of these new allegiances - in an encounter with Surrealism. (The 'Third Person' archive is a collection of images which were in circulation in the 1920's and 30's, at the time of surrealism. Stezaker has described this archive as an opportunity for 'time travel'*. Predominantly a collection of incidental figures from topographical photographs, mostly overlooked (even by the original photographer), their isolation is a strange act of retrieval. 'I am aware that the people in these pictures have long since been dust in these pre-tarmaced streets. It is like an act of posthumous voyeurism'*, tracing their forgotten journeys in the urban labyrinth. (The Approach Gallery)

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