This is a piece called The Desk from a collection of works created by David Hockney in the 80’s that he calls “joiners.” They’re collages of many photographs taken from different angles of a single subject or scene. Hockney combines these photographs into a new kind of composite that shows a very different kind of view of something than a traditional photograph.
Hockney made quite a few of these joiners in the 80’s. Some of the later ones get very complex, showing many different perspectives and distances from objects in the scene:
I think joiners are particularly interesting because they take the very familiar medium of photography and produce something totally different in their view of the world. There’s no fancy equipment or techniques required, just a lot of photos and some clever piecing-together.