David Hockney, meet the man behind Photo Collage(grid)
The method, and the word, were first popularized by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque in 1912, when the two were radically transforming the painting world with their dive into Cubism.
David Hockney an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer and photographer. An important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, gave a new touch to the
film photography by introducing collage photography after his constant expirement.
In the early 1980s, Hockney began to produce photo collages, which he called "joiners" first using Polaroid prints and subsequently 35mm, commercially processed colour prints. Using Polaroid snaps or photolab-prints of a single subject, Hockney arranged a patchwork to make a composite image.
Here is a few of his masterpiece collages made with film camera by shooting each frame and composig into a single photograph.