David Hockney

David Hockney, a photographer known for his cubism photos. Some basic information on him is that he was born in July 9 of 1937 from Bradford, U.K. After he was done with school, 1960s, he moved to Los Angeles, where he then painted his first paintings. But by 1970 he went into photography. With his new lifestyle in photography, he named his collages “joiners”. The joiner I will be critiquing is a collage of his self and with a cigarette in one of the photos. He looks away from the camera at different angles. The lower the photo is on the placement of the face, the lower his eyes, head, and lips dip down. With his photos on the top, he looks up and so on and so forth. All those photos clashing at each other, be it slightly pale or glowing, how David makes the photos so different yet blend together is better than if they were all just parts of the same face. Well, at least in my opinion, and like the rest of this critique…… moving on to the style. His style is called cubism and it seems to have an impressionistic nature to his photos within the collage. …show more content…
I think I’m more intrigued by the angle of which he positions himself to the camera and then puts them together to make an almost, whole face. I believe David is trying to show a new style of collages, focusing on peoples’ faces. Possibly even showing how there that new style could make photos more deep or crazy. Like the image, he is looking at different angles, not a straight face looking at a camera made of bits and pieces of the straight face as most collages are. Nothing is wrong with the style of that straight look; however, Hockney seems he wants to prove his style is as good as that one. Maybe even going beyond to proving he can make it, in a way, better than how people are used to doing collages. He communicates this message by never doing that straight look in any of his