David Hockney is a British painter who also experimented with the medium of photography. In his photographic collages, which he calls “JOINTERS”, he creates composite images out of photographs, first as grids of polaroids and later in more organic, overlapping constructions. To make these collages or joiners, Hockney captured scenes from multiple vantage points and meticulously pieced them together, offering varied perspectives within a single work (a nod to the cubist collages of Pablo Picasso and George Braque).
The above collages from the Zen garden at the Ryoanji Temple in Kyoto were taken in two distinct ways: for the top image Hockney walked along the garden (represented by his feet at the bottom - the red and black socks) and took photos as he was walking (the camera was “moving”); for the bottom image Hockney/the camera was stationary (you see his leg) and he moved the camera from left to right, up and down as he was photographing the garden......two very different impressions of the garden; one is “flattened” almost like a plan view (no perspective), the other is dramatically shaped and spatial showing the enclosure of the garden.