8/27/2023 0 Comments Hockney photo montage![]() ![]() Later he used regular 35-millimetre prints to create photo collages, compiling a ‘complete’ picture from a series of individually photographed details. (ref Guardian) From 1982 Hockney explored the use of the camera, making composite images of Polaroid photographs arranged in a rectangular grid. He began to work more and more with photography after this discovery and even stopped painting for a period of time to exclusively pursue this new style of photography. Upon looking at the final composition, he realized it created a narrative, as if the viewer was moving through the room. He took Polaroid shots of the living room and glued them together, not intending for them to be a composition on their own. He was working on a painting of a living room and terrace in Los Angeles. He did not like such photographs because they always came out somewhat distorted. He noticed in the late sixties that photographers were using cameras with wide-angle lenses to take pictures. Hockney’s creation of the “joiners” occurred accidentally. Perhaps Hockney has not succeeded with one image but his photo collages and photo montages – ‘Joiners’ = certainly caught the eye of the public in the 1980’s. It may have other possibilities but only painting can extend the way of seeing. Photography can’t lead us to a new way of seeing. Photography has failed…How many truly memorable pictures are there? Considering the milllions of photographs taken, there are few memorable images in this medium, which should tell us something. It could be anybody doing it… There are few good photographs, and those good ones that do exist are almost accidental. They are hoping that in one fraction of a second something will make that face look as if there were a longer moment…If you take a hundred, surely one will be good. ![]() ‘Photography can’t show time’ and more… I’ve seen professional photographers shoot hundreds of pictures but they are all basically the same. However he does make judgemental comments about photography such as ‘Photography is only good for mechanical reproduction’. Perhaps this is the wrong argument as they are different media and needn’t be compared. I used his collage technique because it is unusual but. ![]() David Hockney is a great painter,but he has also known fame through photography, although he does not mince his words when he says ‘Photography will never equal painting!’ This is a dark room print of my photo collage, which I decided to do in the style of David Hockney. ![]()
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