Hockney's first photo collage emerged in the early '70s while he was painting the interior of a Los Angels home. In order to accurately paint the living room, Hockney had taken a series of photographs from different angles. Hockney later assembled the Polaroid photos together in a grid-like fashion. Even though he taken the photos purely as reference material, Hockney realized the photo collage (or "joiner", as he later nicknamed the photo collage) could stand alone as its own form of art.
He pursued this art form more in depth during the mid to late '70s, taking hundreds of photos from varying angles and assembling them into a single collage.
This is a well-known photo collage that Hockney composed, depicting his elderly mother.
Hockney explored his fascination with the Los Angels swimming pools through a different medium, assembling several collages where the swimming pool was the subject.
Hundreds of photos must have been taken in order to create such a large, detailed collage.
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The fact that Hockney took photos from multiple angles adds a surreal quality to his photographs, as he depicts everyday objects in new, fascinating ways.
The perspective of this collage is interesting; Hockney is able to capture his elderly mother sitting in a graveyard, in addition to his own feet in the photograph.
At first glance Hockney's self portrait might seem disjointed, but in actuality he was able to layer the images quite well.
With the use of the photo collage, Hockney achieves almost a panoramic view of his subject matter.
Hockney's photos blend together seamlessly because he included a small section of the subject in every consecutive photo he took.
Hockney's style of illustrating multiple emotions and positions for each of his subjects is unique and unparalleled.
Layering the Polaroids in such a fashion creates movement in Hockney's collages that wouldn't otherwise exist; certainly not in the original pictures.
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