John Stezaker: Marriage

Marriage, this latest monograph in John Stezaker's brilliant FilmPortraits, finds the British artist once again playing the edge betweencaricature and portrait, the real and the incredible. Stezaker's mediumis vintage film stills, and his delicate, almost Cubist, portrait-collages,which play with scale, representation and most powerfully - theviewers' expectations, seem both vulnerable and even more deeplyhuman than the real thing. Writes Cecilia Jardemar in an excellentintroduction, -Stezaker was making visible that which is hidden but weknow to exist, liberating us from the two-dimensionality of ordinary flatphotographic representation . . . and proposes instead an image whichreflects our endlessly transitional reality.