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“I made a little photographic experiment with a Polaroid, by putting 30 of them together. I made a photograph of this house in a way that I’d been trying to paint the house – from three different viewpoints. And the photograph excited me so much – time was appearing in the picture, and because of it, space. A bigger illusion of space.” — David Hockney
David Hockney is currently featured in an acclaimed exhibition of his drawings at the National Portrait Gallery in London – the first such exhibition to focus on his drawings in over 20 years, now closed due to COVID-19 restrictions. The exhibition, David Hockney: Drawing from Life, “explores Hockney as a draughtsman from the 1950s to the present by focusing on depictions of himself and a small group of sitters close to him….” Hockney also recently shared with the world a message of hope via a painting he sent to the Louisiana Museum entitled Do remember they can’t cancel the spring. So for a trip to the vaults today, enjoy this clip of Hockney describing the nascence of his iconic photocollage works from Don Featherstone’s 1983 documentary, David Hockney – Joiner Photographs, courtesy of L.A. Louver, which has exhibited Hockney since the 1970s. In the clip, Hockney “describes how he began to make photocollages and the possibilities the medium presents for depicting space and time.”
