David Hockney was famous for his unique style of photography. In the 1980s, he began making photograph collages and he use to call them, joiners. He used Polaroid photos and soon 35mm prints in color. Hockney cleverly composed a patchwork of images.

Interested in how 3-dimensional space can be portrayed in a 2-dimensional image. Joiners aimed to create an image that was able to show reality how we experience it (in fragments, not as a whole), and to show the passage of time.

Image Analysis

This image is a joiner by David Hockney, the genre is documentary portraiture. The lighting in this image is natural outside lighting which projects shadows of the subjects. The focal point of this image is the pointing finger in the very middle which i circled in red. The Mice-en-scene of this image shows two middle aged men having some sort of discussion where they are pictures laughing and smiling, perhaps looking at something in the distance. This image is created by putting together many different polaroid images which Hockney calls a ‘joiner’. I believe Hockney’s joiners are so interesting as they are 2D images which emphasise movement and shape. Hockney’s joiners create a still video like image where you can easily understand the scene and act as a timeline.