David Hockney created photomontages in the 1970s-1980s by arranging multiple Polaroid photos of a subject or scene into a grid layout. The photos were taken from different perspectives and times to create an image like cubism that depicted movement and the passage of time. Some of his most famous photomontages include "My Mother, Bolton Abbey" from 1982, which used 30 photos to portray his mother, and landscapes like "Pearblossom Highway" that gave a three-dimensional, cubist impression through the use of multiple angled photos.

1. David Hockney

2. Photo joinery
• He used photo collage by Using varying numbers of small
Polaroid photos of a subject
• One of his first photomontages was of his mother
• He took photographs different perspectives and at slightly
different times which created an image like cubism
• He’s done this with landscapes and portraits
• These photomontage works appeared mostly between 1970
and 1986. He referred to them as "joiners“
• He began this style of art by taking Polaroid photographs of
one subject and arranging them into a grid layout. The subject
would actually move while being photographed so that the
piece would show the movements of the subject seen from
the photographer's perspective

3. Some of his work

4. My Mother, Bolton Abbey, 1982
This photo shows a portrait of David
Hockney’s mother, he’s created it in his
style of photo joinery, he’s used about
30 separate images to create the
composition, it makes the photo have
a sense of time in it because all of the
pictures are taking at different angles
and perspectives. My opinion of this
photo is that it I think the way that
he’s put the photo’s together works
well also I like the way that some parts
are darker than other bits and also
that other bits are quite light as well.

5. This is a photomontage of a street, its once again done in Hockney’s style of photo
joinery, this image also is done in the style of cubism, it gives you the sense of being in
the photo its like your you can see the dimensions of the photo, because of this I like it
because I like the way that it makes you feel like your in the photo.
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6. Pearblossom Highway
This image shows the photomontage of Pearblossom Highway, this composition
again is done in the style of cubism because you can see the dimensions of the
photo well, it gives you a sense of it being 3D, I like the way that he's used
different colours in the sky which he has probably taken at different times of the
day.

7. “The Merced River, Yosemite Valley”, 1982
On this slide the image shows the Merced River, its been done in
Hockney’s photo joinery style, it once again shows a slight following of
the cubism style as it looks 3D because all the separate photos are taking
at different angles and at different times, I like this composition because
of the way the photos are taken it makes the image come to life.

8. The Scrabble Game
This photo shows a family playing scrabble, it follows the similar
style of the other photos. But in this one he puts together so the
photos create an unusual shape and leaves gaps, so it makes you
think about what’s in the parts of the photo’s that are missing