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David Hockney
British, b. 1937

David Hockney British, b. 1937

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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: David Hockney, Ashtray, Sunday Morning, Tokyo 1983, 1983

David Hockney British, b. 1937

Ashtray, Sunday Morning, Tokyo 1983, 1983
Photograph collage on paperboard laid on panel
55 x 53 in.
139.7 x 134.6 cm.
Edition 10/15
Signed and dated along lower margin

Exhibitions

Tokyo, Nishimura Gallery, David Hockney: New Work with a Camera, 1983, no. 14 (another from the series exhibited; illustrated in colour, p. 27). This exhibition later travelled to Tokyo, Nagase Photo Salon.
London, Hayward Gallery, Hockney’s Photographs, 1983-1984, p. 27, no. 95 (another from the edition exhibited).
In the early 1980s, David Hockney began experimenting with photographic “joiners”—composite images assembled from dozens of individual Polaroid prints or 35mm photographs. Ashtray, Sunday Morning, Tokyo exemplifies this innovative approach,...
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In the early 1980s, David Hockney began experimenting with photographic “joiners”—composite images assembled from dozens of individual Polaroid prints or 35mm photographs. Ashtray, Sunday Morning, Tokyo exemplifies this innovative approach, in which a seemingly ordinary subject of a Tokyo streetview, becomes a complex meditation on time, perception, and space. Rather than capturing a single, fixed moment, Hockney constructs the image through multiple exposures taken from slightly shifting viewpoints. The resulting composition fractures and reassembles the scene, inviting viewers to experience it as a sequence of glances rather than a unified snapshot. Subtle variations in angle, lighting, and focus animate the surface, suggesting the passage of time embedded within the image itself.
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