Learning from Hockney

“I mean, clearly, all along I’ve had an ambivalent relationship to photography – but as to whether I thought it an art form, or a craft, or a technique, well, I’ve always been taken with Henry Geldzahler’s answer to that question when he said, ‘I thought it was a hobby.'” – David Hockney, from Cameraworks: Staring Down a Paralyzed Cyclops (1983), in the book, True to Life, 25 Years of Conversations with David Hockney, Lawrence Weschler.