David Hockney: "We are now at the end of chemical photography. A new tool has arrived โ the computer. The computer allows us to manipulate images, to use the handโฆ chemical photography only lasted about 170 years."
From David Hockney: Secret Knowledge, 2002.
On David Hockney's Pursuit of the Digital Image (1985-2026)
Of all of the 'famous' contemporary artist's of the era, Hockney (as well as Keith Haring) would engage the computer most persistently, sustaining acute interrogations of the digital medium across time.
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