Stezaker subjects the image to a deep gaze until it betrays some locus of fascination

摘要

At its 1956 Whitechapel Gallery exhibition This Is Tomorrow, The Independent Group's ambivalent fascination with mass culture was captured in Richard Hamilton's pop icon Just What Is It That Makes Todays Homes So Different, So Appealing?. Hamilton assembled slivers of ads, comics and porn into what is often called a 'photomontage', but may be more exactly termed a 'photocollage'. For whereas montage intends to create a seamless continuity between story and image, as seen in films, collage leaves evident the fragmentation of parts.