Renowned English painter, David Hockney, takes us on a visual journey as he shares with us his treasured photo diaries. | dG1fZENGa3c4MGVMcU0
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00:00Whereas before, I'd often asked people to take pictures for me if I wanted a picture of something, a reference, you see.
00:08I'd asked a friend to do it, and I thought maybe I could take pictures just as good as anybody else.
00:13I think I can, actually.
00:16And that's, Dennis Hopper took that picture, actually.
00:19That's Henry Goldsower and myself and a friend in New York, in Harlem.
00:27You can see a television film Dennis has made.
00:30Ah, yes, this was used for a painting. It's the portrait of Nick Wilder.
00:34And I had these photographs taken. That's Nick.
00:37And there's some, actually, of him taken, stood in his pool.
00:40This is his swimming pool.
00:43It was used in the painting called A Portrait of Nick Wilder, and it was also used in a painting I did of Peter climbing out of the swimming pool.
00:51Once you've got, you know, six volumes like this, the thing becomes slightly obsessive.
01:00And you take more and more, because you want more and more books.
01:06You tend to want to record more and more.
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