My Photo-montages

In the style of David Hockney

David Hockney is well known for his ‘Joiner Portraits’ in which he would piece together different and varying numbers of Polaroid snaps or prints of a single subject. Hockney arranged a patchwork to make a composite image. One of his first photo-montages was of his mother. Because these photographs are taken from different perspectives and at slightly different times, the result is work that has a relation to Cubism, which was one of Hockney’s major aims: exploring the way human vision works and how things are portrayed.

“In the early 1980’s, English painter David Hockney began creating intricate photo collages that he called “joiners”. His earlier collages consisted of grid-like compositions made up of polaroid photographs. He then switched to photo lab-processed 35mm photographs and created collages that took on a shape of their own, creating abstract representations of the scenes he had photographed. The varied exposures of the individual photographs that make up each collage give each work a fluidity and movement that otherwise might not be found.” Juxtapoz Magazine.

My Response

Passport photo of my Mother in the 70s

The photo-montage above is a response to David Hockney’s style. I used an old passport photo of my Mother from the 70s, in order to create an old fashioned and vintage style photo-montage. I experimented with using Photoshop, cutting out different sections of the photo and re-pasting them on in different positions, and places where they do not belong.