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I chose to research a photographer that has challenged my thought process in taking pictures. David Hockney was born on July 9, 1937 in Bradford, England. Although he originally was a painter, he explored drafting, printmaking, and set designing before dabbling in photography. From 1959 to 1962 he studied at the Royal College of Art in London, England. He was a very expressive individual, although seemed very critical to the artists as a mass. It came across that Hockney realized that there were two groups of students, those who are traditional, studying art and the classics, doing still life, life painting and figure compositions; and then there were those who were more adventurous, who were constantly full heartedly involved in their art all of the time. They were the ones exploring new media and mediums like himself. I was firs