[The Guardian] The big picture: John Stezaker’s intriguing journeys into nostalgia

The big picture: John Stezaker’s intriguing journeys into nostalgia

The British artist’s tranquil image of the actor Celeste Holm evokes a pre-60s era, shutting out the noise of pop art

John Stezaker has made collages, often using stills from film magazines from the 1940s and 1950s, throughout his career as an artist. This one comes from his latest exhibition Double Shadow at the Approach Gallery in London. He doesn’t always identify the silhouettes in his cutouts, but here the actor with the white-gloved hands on the deck rail has a name – Celeste Holm, the 1947 Oscar winner for her role in Elia Kazan’s Gentleman’s Agreement.

Our guest editor, Jarvis Cocker, has been a fan of these coolly unsettling images – “I love them” – since Stezaker taught him on the film course at St Martin’s School of Art (Stezaker mostly remembers Cocker for his slightly patchy attendance record at his tutorials, as his music career began to take off).

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