Hockney

Art was always in Cardoso’s orbit, and much later, as he honed his craft, initially as a photographer before painting captured his eye, he fell into the universe of David Hockney, who became a foundational influence.

The image Lester Sloan took of Hockney has become a hall of mirrors, an entrance into the very notion of what a mother means.

But where Hockney’s L.A. is all about remove and the fantasy of utopia, Cardoso’s L.A. lives among the people, places and scenes that drive the city.

In the 1980s, my father, Lester Sloan, was a photojournalist for Newsweek magazine assigned to photograph Hockney for a story about artists designing posters for the 1984 Olympics.

Hockney made a poster of a swimmer underwater, captured through 12 Polaroid photographs arranged in a grid.