Joiners Definition Post and Research

Joiners are a photography technique used through overlapping that consists of multiple images that have been placed together considerably to construct one final outcome image.

David Hockney Research

David Hockney is an artist and photographer who started this idea of joiners. He was originally a painter but then when he started being interested in photography, he thought taking straight up photos was to limiting and restricting, so therefore he started taking multiple images of objects and scenery from different angles and put them all together in a collaged form to create an overall image.

These are some examples of his joiners:

This one shows how using joiners can create a distorted effect on simple objects like this chair and it infact changes our whole perspective on the chair making it look completely different.

This one is more of a college of  a road that fits together more regularly so it does't distort the viewers vision so much.

Joiners can come in different forms. The two examples by David Hockney show how some can be more randomly placed to change the shape and view of the object being photographed. Whereas some can be perfectly placed together so the whole image still fits in the same way. This can be easier on the viewers vision.

This example shows how overlapping can be used to create this effect. The individual images fit really nicely together and all the measurements are the same however the images all overlap each other like a collage effect.