“Photography is OK,” he said to me that first day in 1982 — as he held in his hand a veritable deck of such “snaps” —Polaroids in that instance—gazing over an intricate photo collage he was in the midst of fashioning — “if you don’t mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed Cyclops, for a split second.” — David Hockney
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🧵Not standing still …
“…in 1980, in his wall-length masterpiece ‘Mulholland Drive: The Road to the Studio.’ It was a sweeping portrayal of the ridgetop road astride which he’d recently purchased an adjacent home and studio, and of the entire city over which it straddled.
In ‘Mulholland Drive,’ drive was a verb as Hockney invited his viewer on a ride across a moving focus, the succession of vantages afforded by each new curve successively laid out and zoomed past.”
Greg Lloyd
