DAVID HOCKNEY
CONTEXT
David Hockney (born 9 July 1937)
He was educated at Wellington Primary School, Bradford Grammar School, Bradford College of Art
During the early 1980s , Hockeny produced “joiner” photographs , a form of photo collage that includes cutting areas of a photo and moving/replacing it around the image.
JOINER PHOTOS
David was increasingly interested in the limitations of photography , he wanted to explore different classical techniques ad discover how they could be broken.
“Although it looks as though there’s a central viewpoint… not one photograph is taken from that central viewpoint.”
DAVID HOCKNEY
The illusion created by the joiner photos manipulates our sight and how we view the image creating a false sense of understanding. This concept i felt related heavily to the idea of identity , people see what they are shown which may not exactly be the truth.
EXAMPLE AND ANALYSIS OF WORK
In some of his later work, Hockney overlaps the images in order to create a cubist effect, Hockney believed these photos were closer to how the eye actually views the world. This sparked an interest in optics and vision , inspiring the collection ‘joiners’
Hockney originally had a slight distaste for photography , he claimed it was
‘All right if you don’t mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralysed cyclops-for a split second,’
David Hockney
This quickly changed when Hockney started exploring different view points
This is one of Hockney’s most famous photographs , as it inspired a way of printing for Hockney
The miss matched red and black socks contrasts the seriousness and stillness of the garden adding complexity to the image – I later decided to incorporate this in my work.
Relation and insperation to identity
I felt the way Hockney choses to break barriers when it comes to perspective and how we view an image interesting and i wanted to incorporate into my project on identity. i liked his use of contrasting ideas as well but i wanted to achieve this in a more subtle way.