During the early 1980s, David Hockney focused on a new technique for creating photographic collages, which he termed ‘joiners’. These works involve assembling scores of photos of the same subject taken from different angles in a single session. Hockney’s aim was to inject a visible element of time into photographic images, which normally represent only ‘frozen moments’. To illustrate his approach, a special project was devised for this film, and Hockney is shown at his Los Angeles studio creating the ‘joiner’ later titled Fredda bringing Ann and me a Cup of Tea. Through his exploration of this new method, Hockney illuminates his underlying attitudes to the nature of visual representation. This film adds a further dimension by looking at the influence of photographs on Hockney’s paintings and graphic works throughout his career. Hockney places his own experiments in a wide perspective, highlighting the interaction between an artist’s creativity and chosen medium.
David Hockney - Joiner Photographs [South Bank Show] (Don Featherstone 1983).mkv
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Container: Matroska
Runtime: 49 min 44 s
Size: 668 MiB
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Codec: h264
Resolution: 636x480
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Frame rate: 29.970 fps
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#1: 2.0ch AAC LC
Language(s):English
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