John Stezaker is a contemporary British artist known for his collage work combining vintage images in new ways. Some of his most famous series include "Marriage" where he combines film star portraits to create unfamiliar icons, and "Mask" where he fuses profiles with landscapes. He does not use Photoshop but carefully positions physical images. Florian Imgrund is a contemporary German photographer who produces double exposures from film cameras, often combining natural landscapes with human features to express connections between nature and humanity. His self-developed analog images have an authentic, nostalgic quality. Hannah Hoch was an early pioneer of photomontage in the historical Dada movement. She combined press images in

1. Task 1
Melissa Storey

2. John Stezaker
Historical/ Contemporary- Contemporary (1949-Present)
Traditional/Non-Traditional- Traditional
• British artist John Stezaker is fascinated by the lure of
images. He takes classic movie stills, vintage postcards
and book illustrations and makes collages to give old
images a new meaning. His work is based on
examinations of relationships, documenting the truth
and the symbol of a modern culture. He couples a
male and female identity and slices the faces in half.
He will then place both images next to each other
where they would most likely meet the most on the
facial positioning. By adjusting, inverting and slicing
separate pictures together to create new images
Stezaker explores the subversive force found images. It
is said he correlates his images to see the,
“personalities become empty, rendered abject through
their magnified flaws and struggle for visual
dominance.”
• He does not use Photoshop to place these images
together, he just simply places them with his own
hands and takes a picture of them when he is happy
with the outcome.

3. John Stezaker
One of his most famous series of work was the marriage series. In his marriage series he
focuses on the concept of portraiture, both as art historical genre and public identity. Using
publicity shots of classic film stars, Stezaker creates icons that dissociate the familiar to create
sensations of the uncanny.
Another of Stezaker’s famous series is called Mask. Here he fuses the profiles of glamorous
movie stars with caves, hamlets, or waterfalls, making the images eerie but beautiful.
-His work is found in galleries such as the Saatchi, and in art books.

4. Florian Imgrund
Historical/ Contemporary- Contemporary (Present)
Traditional/Non-Traditional- Traditional
• German photographer Florian Imgrund acquired his
first film camera in 2010, and he develops the
pictures himself in his own dark room. He produces
exciting double exposures from his film camera and
usually expresses human nature linking natural
landscapes to a personal feature like with “Wooden
Vision” you can see the bark taking form onto his
face and he looks to be part of the woods.
• His work would be classed as fine art and would
appear in galleries, art books or to be bought for
someone’s personal use.

5. Florian Imgrund
This quote really explains what’s his works feels like because of the analogue film camera.
“Self-developed, and free from any computer manipulation, his beautiful images evoke a
feeling comparable to that you get listening to an old vinyl crack or watching an old movie
before it gets digitally re-mastered, repackaged and rereleased as a 3D blockbuster.” This
makes a good piece of art work, you don’t need

6. Stephanie Jung
Historical/ Contemporary- Contemporary (Present)
Traditional/Non-Traditional- Non-Traditional
• Stephanie Jung is most famous for her multiple
exposure photographs that cleverly convey the fast,
intense and manic feelings while experiencing a busy
city where the senses are on constant overload. But
her work is not just about city life, it's about time and
caducity, about capturing special moments getting lost
in time.
• She layers many similar photographs over the top of
each other using the help of Photoshop and this is
what gives her the fast moving feeling in the
photograph.
• Her work has been published in different magazines as
well as exhibited in art galleries.

8. Hannah Hoch
Historical/ Contemporary- Historical (1889-1978)
Traditional/Non-Traditional- Traditional
• Hannah Hoch is well known for her involvement for
photomontage. She was one of the first people to do
this sort of photography. Many of her pieces criticise
the fashion beauty industry at the time it was first
introduced to the media. She wanted to make it clear
that women didn’t all have to look the same and no
matter what you looked like you always had the same
rights and opportunities.
• She combined images from newspapers and magazine
and mixed and re-created a new piece of art to make a
statement about life and art in the Dada movement.
• Her work would be found in galleries, art books and
art exhibitions.

9. Hannah Hoch
The Nazis branded her a degenerate and the Dadaists tried to edge her out but this did
not stop her trying to get her point across about how sexism and racism is portrayed in
the media.

10. David Standish
Historical/ Contemporary- Contemporary (Present)
Traditional/Non-Traditional- Non-Traditional
• David Standish is usually a fashion photographer but he
has produced some album artworks for people such as
Paloma Faith. Paloma Faith’s album art work is striking
and dazzling. Paloma has always been striking and
unmistakeable because of her iconic style. The custom
made clothing, dazzling hair and makeup, have all been
captured in the photograph to form the public display to
become one of the most dramatic and celebrated album
art images available.
• This work is commercialised as it is to promote Paloma
Faith and her album. It can be bought on the front of her
album cover and it very recognisable. It is all edited on
computers therefore follows a non-traditional technique.

11. David Standish
Paloma said "I am thrilled to be able to exhibit these artworks. The photographers
involved are all amazing and I am so proud to have worked with them. In an age where
we are all downloading music, it's wonderful to be able to appreciate fully the work that
goes into creating the beautiful imagery surrounding an album"