David Hockney:

Photographic Collages
and Composite Images
 It took over 700 photographs to create this work.

Pearblossom Highway, 11-18th April 1986 #2 1986 (190 Kb); Photographic collage, 198 x 282
cm (78 x 111 in);
'Pearblossom Highway' shows a crossroads in a very wide open
space, which you only get a sense of in the western United States. .
..
The picture was not just about a crossroads, but about us driving
around. I'd had three days of driving and being the passenger. The
driver and the passenger see the road in different ways. When you
drive you read all the road signs, but when you're the passenger,
you don't, you can decide to look where you want.
And the picture dealt with that: on the right-hand side of the road it's
as if you're the driver, reading traffic signs to tell you what to do and
so on, and on the left-hand side it's as if you're a passenger going
along the road more slowly, looking all around. So the picture is
about driving without the car being in it.
Merced River,Yosemite Valley 1982photographic 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.
The Artists Mom
David Hockney: "David
Graves Looking at Bayswater
London, November 1982"
Place Furstenberg, Paris, August 7,8,9, 1985 #1 1985 (220 Kb);
Photographic collage, 88.9 x 80 cm (35 x 31 1/2 in);
Collection of the artist
The next three images show an alternative way of conveying
space by combining photographs taken at different moments.
Each artwork shows multiple viewpoints as well as the
passage of time.
The Scrabble Game, 1983
Photographing Annie Leibovitz While She's Photographing Me,
1983 photographic collage, edition: 4, 25 7/8 x 61 3/4 in.
Robert Littman Floating In A Pool,
1982 photographic collage 22 1/2 x 30 in.
The next three works capture the same objects using multiple
viewpoints to show more than one angle: in a single photo we
would only be able to see one point of view.

(Inspired by Cubism: Picasso and Braque)

Picasso- Mandolin and Guitar, 1924
Paint Trolley, L.A. 1985, 1985 photographic collage, 41x61 in
Portrait of the Artist's Mother
Composite Polaroids
Process
You will select a location and subject matter.
Using your cell phone set to a square photo,
take 12-16 photos. Stand in the same location
as you take each photo. Overlap each shot
slightly if you are creating a collage, you may
work edge to edge if you are creating a
composite (grid format).

Emphasize time, space and/or multiple

viewpoints in your composition.
You will share your photos so that they will be
printed. You will cut and arrange your photo
collage or composite image on board.

Although we will photograph in school, you

may also photograph places or people outside
of class!