Brenton Hamilton, Images’s Conscience — Middle for Photographic Artwork

Photomontage has a discreet historical past as a way, rising within the early twentieth century. Using recontextualized photographs in daring methods – lifted from new media, ink, and the plethora of magazines that have been a brand new trendy car of data.

The avant-garde figures of the time who used this methodology realized a robust new voice – one among incisive, societal critique using the reproduced {photograph}. These monteurs as they referred to as themselves, fought Fascism within the 1930’s and 40’s and inaugurated a brand new medium: the photograph montage and its inherent social voice.

Join historian Brenton Hamilton as he supplies evaluation, unpacking this historical past, trying on the origins and the continued particular utilization of those varieties. This recontextualization continues and is enmeshed in 2nd wave Feminist practices and political and societal critique.

About Brenton Hamilton
Brenton Hamilton is a working artist utilizing pictures, particularly dedicated to using nineteenth century pictures strategies in experimental methods. He has devoted his profession to the historical past and observe 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 observe, Hamilton was an educator on the Maine Media Workshops in Rockport, Maine and taught these supplies and methodologies for practically 30 years to hundreds of scholars. He has an MFA in pictures, displays often, and is a full time teacher working with college students in darkroom strategies, the historical past and improvement of pictures as a cultural power, and lots of disciplines inside pictures’s scope. He is presently a professor on the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.

A 25 12 months retrospective monograph highlighting Hamilton’s work was launched in 2020. To order A Blue Idyll, Hamilton’s lovely e book visit his website. >