David Hockney

David Hockney
Photomontages
About
•  Born: 1937
•  David Hockney is born in Bradford, Yorkshire,
England on 9 July.
•  English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage
designer and photographer.
•  An important contributor to the Pop art movement
of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most
influential British artists of the twentieth century.
About
•  In the early 1980s, Hockney began to produce
photocollages, which he called "joiners," first of
Polaroid prints and later of 35mm, commercially
processed color prints.
•  Using varying numbers of Polaroid snaps or
photolab-prints of a single subject Hockney
arranged a patchwork to make a composite
image.
•  One of his first photomontages was of his
mother.
About
•  Because these photographs are taken from
different perspectives and at slightly different
times, the result is work that has an affinity
with Cubism, which was one of Hockney's
major aims – discussing the way human vision
works.
Some of these
pieces are
landscapes such
as Pearblossom
Highway #2
Others are portraits,
My Mother, Bolton
Abbey, 1982.
Photographic Collages
Merced River, Yosemite Valley, Sept.
1982
photographic collage, 52x61 in.
Telephone Pole, 1982
photographic collage, 66x40 in
Prehistoric Museum Near Palm Springs, 1982
photographic collage, 84 1/2 x 56 1/2 in.
Robert Littman Floating in My Pool, Oct. 1982
photographic collage, 22 1/2 x 30 in.
Photographing Annie Leibovitz While She Is Photographing Me, Mojave Desert, Feb.
1983
photographic collage, edition:4, 25 7/8 x 61 3/4 in.
Composites
Don and Christopher, 1982
composite polaroid, 31 1/2 x 23 1/4 in.
Nicholas Wilder Studying Picasso, 1982
composite polaroid, 48 1/2 x 26 1/2 in.
Still Life Blue Guitar, 1982
composite polaroid, 24 1/2 x 30 in
Celia's Children Albert & George Clark, 1982
composite polaroid, 35 x 23 1/4 in.
Sun On The Pool, 1982
composite polaroid, 34 3/4 x 36 1/4 in.
Mother, Bradford Yorkshire, 1982
composite polaroid, 56 x 23 1/2 in
Patrick Procktor, Pembroke Studios, London 1982
composite polaroid, 52 1/2 x 21 in.
How are these made?
•  David Hockney on Pearblossoms Highway
Assignment
•  Create your own David Hockney inspired
Photomontage.
•  The Photomontage can be styled after the
Photographic Collages or the Composites.
•  Take a minimum of 30 photos to create a
space or person.
•  Photos can be edited and should NOT be
blurry. Good Technical Quality, ergo,
Exposure ect.
Assignment Cont.
•  You will be using Photoshop exclusively to
compose these photos
•  You can do the Photographic Collages or the
Composite angle.
•  Think about getting a subject. How can I tell a
story about them or that area (space, either
outside or closed and indoors).
•  Today we will be brainstorming who or what to
take pictures of. As well as starting playing
around with Portraiture photography.