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...into photography? A painter's job, perhaps; or so it seemed to the English painter and stage designer David Hockney, 50 of whose photocollages are on view (through Nov. 9) at New York City's International Center of Photography. In a phrase as memorable for its injustice as its vividness, he once remarked that "photography is all right if you don't mind looking at the world from the point of view of a paralyzed cyclops -- for a split second." But between 1981 and 1983 Hockney scarcely touched a paintbrush; irked by painter's block, he turned to photography...
...Hockney also discussed the connection between religion and the development of perspective in the Italian Renaissance...
...order to achieve this closeness, Hockney did pastiche still-lifes of many photographs taken of the same scene but from different angles. In some of these montages he includes images of his own feet...
...Hockney said that Cubism is an attempt to make the viewer's eye move as if the scene itself were actually moving. Cubist painting achieves this, Hockney said, because it is disjointed; the whole scene cannot be taken in at once but instead forces a spectator to participate in the representation...
...conjunction with the artist's visit, the Carpenter Center will show the exhibition, "David Hockney: New Prints," today through March...