Professional Practice: DAVID HOCKNEY

David Hockney has used photomontage in many of his works. Individual photographs have been placed together to create a larger photographic collage which Hockney has termed a 'Joiner'. The number of prints in each Joiner may vary depending on how much information Hockney feels he needs to explore in the subject matter. In some of his Joiners he has photographed more than one side of an object or person and then placed the individual images together to create a single picture. This technique was used to cubist painters such as Georges Braque and Picasso who show many facets of object on a single canvas. Hockney has taken this on stage further and presented the subject at different moments in time. The photographic instant has been lengthened in some of Hockney's Joiners to become a study of a 'happening', different views from different times during the same event. A picture of a card game is no longer a record of that game at one particular moment but rather a study of the whole game.

Below are examples of Hockneys photographic work including his use of poloroid Joiners.

Poloroids...