David Hockney changes perspective - 3D photographs without the glasses

David Hockney The Red Table 2014 Photograph : Richard Schmidt

Now here's an exhibition that I want to check out. It includes what Hockney describes as 'photographic paintings' and that's the attraction for me. They come from an interest in perspective and his belief that ordinary photographs are too flat. Reading Mark Brown's article in the Guardian on Friday 17 April - here's the link at  http://gu.com/p/47h53  - it seems that it is all about vanishing points. 

For his photographic paintings, Hockney has taken hundreds of close-up images of heads, jackets, shirts, shoes , tables etc. and then put them together likes a collage. This way he achieves more than the one vanishing point that a single image has. He believes that these multiple vanishing points create an almost 3D effect without the need for glasses.

The Group V, 6-11 May 2014 by David Hockney. Acrylic on canvas.Photograph: Richard Schmidt

I suspect that the jury may be out here for a while or at least divided as to whether this approach offers the photographic opportunity perceived by Hockney, changes the photographic perspective or less a new way of painting in photography more an interesting gimmick.

I'm not a fan of 3D in the cinema or at home on the television but I'm intrigued by Hockney's idea. So his exhibition at the Annely Juda Fine Art Gallery is now down on my' to see' exhibition list .