Who is David Hockney?
David Hockney is one of the most important painters of the 20th century. He was born in Bradford in 1937. Hockney was one of the big artists involved in the pop art movement in the 1960s. This remarkable man still works today. He is not shy to try new things, and has used every type of medium in his art work.
The latest thing he is working on is an I Pad, this has let him keep up with his art, all through the pandemic. But the thing we are going to look at is his period of work with the camera.
The latest thing he is working on is an I Pad, this has let him keep up with his art, all through the pandemic. But the thing we are going to look at is his period of work with the camera.
David Hockney and his Joiners Art Work.
In the early 1980’s, 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.
We watched a YouTube documentary video in class, on how he composed his work. It was all about "time", a fraction that the camera takes to produce an image, as to painting the same image over many hours.
For someone who thought Painters and Photographers where two separate mediums, he clearly changed his mind when he tried photography for himself. This brought him into a whole different way to produce his art work in the 1980s. By taking the risk he has sold many wonderful art work under Joiners.
For someone who thought Painters and Photographers where two separate mediums, he clearly changed his mind when he tried photography for himself. This brought him into a whole different way to produce his art work in the 1980s. By taking the risk he has sold many wonderful art work under Joiners.
Some work created by Hockney on Joiners
My Joiners Work
The first two have been processed by Photoshop. The first one Stephen set up a grid of 16 squares "rulers". I then picked one of my shattered pieces and completed the whole grid with the photo layout. I clicked on my image, dragged it onto the PS icon, selected all, edit copy, edit paste, template page, edit paste, edit free transform, click and then I carefully fitted it into squares by pressing enter. Then I repeated the process to complete the grids.
The next three I uploaded the images taken from my Canon Camera. I took four images across and down to end up with one whole image but shattered into sixteen pieces. After printing out three pages, I then cut them out carefully. On a large piece of paper I played around to see what image I liked the best. I decided to keep them in a grid formation." The one in the middle". I then placed them neatly and glued them down. Stephen was going to put our work up on the walls in the classroom. I must say, I preferred working with the cut out images on the paper. Obviously some things have to be photoshopped to create different techniques, but i'm a tactile person and like to hold what I have made.
My style of a portrait joiner, influenced by David Hockey
My finished image.
A little play around with the photos.
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Some left over photos.
Process I used |
I used the same process as before. I was paired up with another class mate kirsten, we took it in turns in the studio. We used a canon camera to take a series of portrait photographs. The camera was set on AV aperture 5.6. When I was sitting still on a chair, Kirsten took photos of me and I repeated the same with her. We shared a memory card and then had to process our own work before printing. In total there was 28 images, I took to many, as usual. After we developed the prints, we had fun cutting them out and arranging them on stock card. I had allot of photographs that I couldn't use. I tried to make another image, but it looked wrong. In the end I was happy with what I made. If I was to do it again, I now know what I can improve on.
The images I took to make my Joiners.
I have placed the images in the sequence I took them. They are all took on f/5.6 but the ISO varies.