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streetsofcalcutta:

I like to think of John Stezaker’s ‘Mask Series’ as an exploration into the unsaid or maybe the “un-thought”.

His use of a glamorised background photograph with an image overlay of a natural scene in place of facial features seems to me like the yearning for clear and natural thought clouded by the superficialities of the modern age. The false romanticism of 1940s aesthetic perfection, an age where conformity to the “correct” was highly sought after and any deviation from which was frowned upon, is contrasting with the authentic romanticism of nature and its liberating and fierce erraticism.

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    genius
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    love Stezaker so much!
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