David Hockney

Born in England in 1937, David Hockney is a well known painter, stage designer and photographer among many other trades. He is celebrated for his contribution to the "pop art" movement of the 1960s.

His work in Photocollage often involved using polaroid pictures or small photo-lab prints of a subject and placing them together like a collage to create a bigger image. He called these photographs "joiners".

Hockney liked this work more than what he saw from other photographers of the time, they were using wide-angled lenses which he felt gave a distorted image. Therefore making grid pictures gave a wider picture by using multiple standard pictures to create a clean finished image.

Here you can see the photographers impression of movement in the swimming pool as the multiple pictures cut together make it look like the swimmers are moving around the image.

The second image is lots of pictures of the same area taken and joined together to give a checkered image that represents one jigsaw photo.