Tuesday, 17 March 2015

David Hockney- Examples of his images





My initial response: In my opinion judging these images as a collective not as individual photos, i can clearly observe a distinctive theme/structure as to how the photographer has constructed these particular images. In addition to the fact that these images look as if they have been taken which was then printed and physically stuck together, which also gives the indication that when the images were taken it clearly was before technology further advanced. However i do personally think there is one aspect that remains inconsistent with all these images is that the contents of each image shows no relationship to each other which leads me to infer that there was no real narrative behind each image describing as a collective of images or looking at them as individual images. 

After researching the photographers images, the joiners that Hockney produced, gave me the impression that regardless of the fact he had created a new style of imagery combining both art and photography skills there was yet any evidence to show in his images some sort of explanation as to why he choose to take photographs and then construct those images in the form of a joiner; i can infer from this that it was not so much the content of what a joiner image contained that the public thought Hockney's work was special, it was the fact that he was successful in creating an reflectional piece of imagery that had somewhat mirrored the work of Pablo Picasso.

Furthermore looking more closely in particular of one of his early joiner images Hockney created was the image of his mother in a graveyard. With regards to the use of colour a majority of the image was built up of greys, dark greens and in some areas of the image blacks. In my opinion because of the colours hockey chose to use in that image i think that it would somewhat mimic the reality status of age of his mother that could possibly be connected the reason as to why he chose to shoot his mother in graveyard i can only assume that has done this show a connection between his mother and the background; point being that due to the fact of Hockneys mother's visual age is clearly old, he maybe inferring the fact that the inevitability of his mother dying is fairly likely to be soon (at that time period of when the image was taken). From my interpretation of this aspect, David Hockney has made the connection of a graveyard to his mother because thats where she will be in the upcoming years that she has left due to her elderly age, hence why he shot his mother in a graveyard to represent the harsh reality of an individual however death is very much a part of life; vice versa.


The facial expressions of the main subject (in this case his mother) briefly describing hockney's mother appears to deeply in focused about something in addition to her visual appeal seems very sad, aswell as the fact she doesn't seem to be paying attention when Hockney was taking a picture of her, this would suggest that she maybe just as aware as Hockney of the genral outcome of her being very much near to the end of her life, hense why she has no interest in looking at Hockney when he captured this image. 

Additional Research 
I have yet found and critical reviews regarding Hockney's images of his mother that would allow me to further develop my interpretation of joiners and narrative behind his images that was produced. 
 


















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