Softcover | 28 x 0.4 x 21.6 cm | 28 pp

David Hockney Studio | 1996

Limited edition of 5,000

Rare & Collectable

This rarity from almost thirty years ago was self-published, without an ISBN, by David Hockney Studio.

These photographic works pointed to a radically new synthesis in David Hockney's thought and activity as and photographer at the time of publication. The photographs fall into three distinct but linked groups. The large Snails Space photographs comprise a series of eight images of the interior and evolving products of Hockney's Los Angeles studio over a period beginning in March 1995, With the partial exception of the eighth and last photograph, the viewer is looking at naturalistic images of abstract paintings. This may come as something of a surprise, even a double shock.'

Hockney's reputation as a photographer was not built upon conventional naturalism, nor was his reputation as a painter built upon abstraction or non-figuration. Rather the reverse. Here, however, he seems to be inviting us to his studio and offering fresh thoughts on the relationship between naturalism and abstraction in a combination of painting and photography, while exploring, composing and playing with space and colour. 

The above text is part of an essay by Mark Glazebrook included in the publication.

Designed by Sean Adams and Noreen Morioka with David Hockney and Richard Schmidt in the spring of 1996 in Los Angeles, California. The principal typefaces used are Franklin Gothic and Century Expanded. Franklin Gothic was designed by Morris F. Benton in 1903. It is based on other industrial age sans serifs. Century Expanded was also designed by Morris F. Benton in 1900. It is based on Century, designed for Century magazine in 1895, This book was printed and bound at Alan Litho, in Los Angeles, California. The paper used is Quintessence Dull, in various weights.