David Hockney

David Hockney was a born in braford and became involved as a painter form an early age. His later works revole around photography, (photomontaging, which he called 'joiners') using standard photo lab film rolls and varying numbers (~5-150) of small Polaroid snaps of a single subject Hockney arranged a patchwork to make a composite image. Hockney arrugued that becuase the photos were taken from different perspectives and at slightly different times, it can start to show how the human vision works. As a result his work has an affinity with Cubism, an affinity which was one of Hockney's major aims. He was trying to create a sense of time and space around the subject by asking the subject to move whilst he was photographing so that the movements of the subject seen from the photographer's perspective and recorded.