TMI PHOTOGRAPHY II HONORS Project 4: Photo Collage
Your goal for this project is to photograph and assemble your own compositions in the style of British artist David Hockney. You will do this by selecting a subject, taking multiple photographs of your subject at various angles, and assembling these images together as layers in Photoshop.
David Hockney is an English painter, printmaker, and photographer who is an important contributor to the Pop Art movement of the 1960s. Inspired by the early 20th century art movement of Cubism, Hockney took photographs sequentially and pasted them together calling them ‘joiners’.
"If you put six pictures together, you look at them six times. This is more what it’s like to look at someone."
Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907–08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. They brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted. See below for examples of Cubist paintings.
See below for examples of Hockney's photo collage works.
DUE DATES Wednesday, 1/12/22: Go over project guidelines. If time allows, we will go outside and shoot images for a demo.
Thursday/Friday, 1/13 - 1/14/22: Demo how to assemble your collage images in Photoshop.
Wednesday, 1/18/22: Over the long weekend, shoot 300 images towards your project. When you return on Tuesday, you will import your images and create a contact sheet labeled lastname_firstname_p4_cs_1. Turn it into your Project 4 Google Drive folder by midnight.
Monday, 1/24/22: Over the weekend, shoot 300 images towards your project. When you return on Monday, you will import your images and create a contact sheet labeled lastname_firstname_p4_cs_2. Turn it into your Project 4 Google Drive folder by midnight.
Wednesday, 2/9/22: Critique Day! On this day, you will turn in:
4 prints on paper larger than letter size, along with your corresponding PSD digital files. Label your final files lastname_firsname_p4_final_1, etc.