Photograph of Hockney's Mother at Bolton Abbey
- Made:
- 1982 in Bolton Abbey
- maker:
- David Hockney
Photograph of Hockneys mother at Bolton Abbey, colour, "Joiner" format, mounted on grey-green card and framed. Hand-written title in white ink on mount: My Mother Bolton Abbey Yorkshire November 1982 - 7 David Hockney
David Hockney’s photo-collages, or ‘joiners’, are huge scenes made up of dozens of overlapping images. In this artwork, Hockney has pieced together photographs to create a composite portrait of his mother, Laura.
Hockney developed his joiner method in direct response to what he saw as photography’s biggest failing: its inability to reflect the complexity of how we really see the world around us. Hockney’s joiners were his antidote to the frozen moment, a way of enlivening photography with action, and a sense of time passing.
