{"id":271577,"date":"2026-06-12T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T20:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/with-iphones-and-faxes-david-hockney-embraced-tech\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T17:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T21:10:10","slug":"with-iphones-and-faxes-david-hockney-embraced-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/with-iphones-and-faxes-david-hockney-embraced-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"With iPhones and Faxes, David Hockney Embraced Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/12\/arts\/design\/david-hockney-ipad-iphone-photocopier-fax.html\">With iPhones and Faxes, David Hockney Embraced Tech<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/12\/arts\/design\/david-hockney-ipad-iphone-photocopier-fax.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/12\/arts\/design\/david-hockney-ipad-iphone-photocopier-fax.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-12 16:47:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.nytimes.com\">www.nytimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">David Hockney, who died on Thursday at age 88, was an artist enthralled by technological innovation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">In interviews, Hockney would sometimes enthuse about how the 19th-century invention of the metal paint tube had transformed the art world by allowing painters to work easily outside. Throughout his career, he embraced the technological developments of his own times, making art with Polaroid cameras, fax machines, photocopiers, iPads, and iPhones.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Hockney \u201calways had this omnivorous desire to reach people in new ways,\u201d said Mark Grimmer, the co-founder of 59 Studio, an arts company that worked with Hockney on a 2023 immersive show that blew up the artist\u2019s work into large-scale projections. Hockney was \u201calways ahead of the curve\u201d Grimmer added in a 2025 interview: \u201cHe would try anything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Here are some of the ways that Hockney\u2019s art embraced the latest technology.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-4i33c0 expuye50\" id=\"link-7c40bb7\">Polaroids<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Hockney often said in interviews that he considered photography an inferior art form because photos left him feeling \u201coutside\u201d the action, unlike paintings, which could make him feel mentally \u2014 and even physically \u2014 involved with the reality depicted on canvas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Then, in the early 1980s, Hockney acquired a Polaroid camera and suddenly found that he could create photographic images that felt truer to life. He achieved that effect by shooting from dozens of angles, then layering the prints to create large, perspective-defying collages of swimming pools, landscapes and people he knew.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Hockney called the technique \u201cnew cubism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">Prominent galleries in the United States and Europe exhibited his montages. Andy Grundberg, an art critic, said in a New York Times review of a 1984 show that with the Polaroid assemblages, Hockney \u201cmanages \u2014 with customary alacrity \u2014 to give his work an originality and authority that is unimpeachable.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-4i33c0 expuye50\" id=\"link-1e47b56f\">Photocopiers and fax machines<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-140ip4z e1me5xab0\">In 1986, Hockney was playing with a friend\u2019s photocopier when he realized that the machine\u2019s ability to resize&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/12\/arts\/design\/david-hockney-ipad-iphone-photocopier-fax.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With iPhones and Faxes, David Hockney Embraced Tech https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/12\/arts\/design\/david-hockney-ipad-iphone-photocopier-fax.html Publish Date: 2026-06-12 16:47:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":271578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2026\/06\/13\/arts\/00cul-hockney-tech-HFO-04\/00cul-hockney-tech-HFO-04-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-271577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271579,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271577\/revisions\/271579"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}