
A History of Pictures
- Publisher
- Thames & Hudson
- Year
- 2016
- ISBN
- 978-0-500-23949-0
- Specifications
- hardcover
27.9 x 21.6 cm
368 pages
David Hockney argues that a picture is the only way to give an account of what we see, and that every picture-maker faces the same problem: compressing three-dimensional people, things and places onto a flat surface. With the art critic Martin Gayford he looks at pictures made by brush, camera or digital program, on cave walls and computer screens, and argues that film, photography, painting and drawing are deeply interconnected.