David Hockney: Photoshop is boring

In this video David Hockney meditates on the concept of seeing. Of depicting spring, of Picasso's owl that thrills us, of Photoshop and of comparing seat belts and bondage.

David Hockney was invited to the launch of Photoshop in Silicon Valley because of his interest in photography. Photoshop has made a lot of magazines look similar and more and more boring, he says. There is more owlness in Picasso's owl than in a stuffed owl because it is an account of a human being looking on an owl.

Interviewed by Christian Lund, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2011.

Filmed by Martin Kogi

Produced by Martin Kogi and Christian Lund, 2012.

Copyright: Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.

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[David Hockney] The invention of photography was the invention of chemicals

and in a way, chemical photography is now ended.

It lasted - what? - 160 years.

Now, nobody thought chemical photography would end.

Nobody predicts that, do they?

It ended - it certainly has ended now.

Kodak stopped making fixative about eight years ago, I think.

And the fixative was the invention.

Daguerre did it his way

and in England Fox Talbot, who was playing with cameras,

and meaning, seeing these images -

and remember, they sold them in color: you always see them in color;

they were surprised that the photograph was black and white when they first came out -

but, he said to Sir John Hershaw:

"How can I -- how can we fix this image?"

They could get it on paper, using silver

but it didn't last long.

And in fact, sir John Hershaw said:

"Oh well, if you want to fix it, you need this, this and this"

and wrote out the formula for fixative

that was still being manufactured till eight years ago. (1:34)