John Stezaker "Marriage" and "Masks"

These are Collages by the artist John Stezaker which feature old Hollywood publicity stills sliced up and glued back together to create weird hybrid faces. Stezaker then moved on to make a body of works under the title "Masks" which feature a combination of portrait and landscape. Using old postcards he added an additional layer to these publicity shots, creating a pyschological terrain or window into the human face, which can be quite disconcerting to look at.

Although Stezaker used very low tech ways of producing these images with glue, scissors and collage materials. We are going to achieve the same effects through layering up different imagery virtually, sourcing our publicity shots form on line date bases and manipulating them digitally using photoshop, these are some of the results we have achieved so far.