Brenton Hamilton, Man Ray & Images — Middle for Photographic Artwork

The photographer Man Ray is without doubt one of the twentieth Century’s most revolutionary voices in images. His output is huge and experimental, each in idea and in technique.

Join us within the ongoing CPA historical past of images lecture collection with Brenton Hamilton to study these revolutionary methods, tales and evaluation of this numerous and thrilling work. Man Ray’s processes and coverings revolutionized our understanding of what {a photograph} is and expanded its potential for expressive mark making. Conceptual concepts, images’s essence and what illustration with the lens can current in entrance of any viewer – these are all key parts to understanding his fascinating work. 

Don’t miss this new lecture within the new yr! What an effective way to start out off 2026!

About Brenton Hamilton
Brenton Hamilton is a working artist utilizing images, particularly dedicated to the usage of nineteenth century images strategies in experimental methods. He has devoted his profession to the historical past and follow of cyanotype, gum bichromate and platinum as base supplies for his tales and pictures inside his private work, which is steadily embellished with gold and silver and paint.

In addition to his follow, Hamilton was an educator on the Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, Maine and taught these supplies and methodologies for practically 30 years to 1000’s of scholars. He has an MFA in images, reveals commonly, and is a full time teacher working with college students in darkroom methods, the historical past and growth of images as a cultural power, and lots of disciplines inside images’s scope. He is presently a professor on the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

A 25 yr retrospective monograph highlighting Hamilton’s work was launched in 2020. To order A Blue Idyll, Hamilton’s lovely guide visit his website. >