by John Stezaker (Artist), Margaret Iversen (Text by (Art/Photo Books))

Collages that use splitting and doubling to reflect on the duplicitous figure of the uncanny

British artist John Stezaker (born 1949) cuts out actors in publicity photos and pastes the remainder onto a dark ground to create hollowed-out silhouettes. The works in this collection superimpose one negative silhouette on top of another in a way that transforms both.