Brenton Hamilton : a blue idyll : cyanotypes and dreams / text, Lyle Rexer ; edit, Victor Levie & Brenton Hamilton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rexer, Lyle, author.

Contributor:

Levie, Victor, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hamilton, Brenton.

Photography, Artistic.

Photography of art.

Physical Description:

106 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 31 cm

Other Title:

Blue idyll : cyanotypes and dreams

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Schilt Publishing, [2020]

Summary:

For over two decades, visual artist and historian Brenton Hamilton has been creating a sustained body of work, mostly concentrated within the historic processes employing nineteenth-century photography techniques that are no longer commercially available. Hamilton has produced a unique collection using methodologies like gum bichromate forms, platinum, and collodion ambrotypes on black glass, French variants of paper calotypy and of course the cyanotype.0Influenced by the Surrealist motifs, coaxing dream-like, chance collisions of fragments from art history, Hamilton shapes a new landscape in his photographs. The present symbolism of the dark night sky and the freedom to look outside himself towards unfettered ideas and musings, learning to make a new place with paper and metal salts and light, allows him to rest and wonder. He combines human anatomy, astronomy, and botanical imagery to create intriguing and provocative arrangements. His work references ancient Greece and Rome, as well as 15th- and 16th- century Dutch and Italian paintings. Hamilton uses symbols and visual elements from the history of art to create a thoroughly contemporary vision.

"For over two decades, visual artist and historian Brenton Hamilton has been creating a sustained body of work, mostly concentrated within the historic processes employing nineteenth-century photography techniques that are no longer commercially available. Hamilton has produced a unique collection using methodologies like gum bichromate forms, platinum, and collodion ambrotypes on black glass, French variants of paper calotypy, and of course the embellished cyanotype."--Cover.

Notes:

Chiefly illustrated.

Contains:

Hamilton, Brenton. Photographs. Selections.

ISBN:

9053309411

9789053309414

OCLC:

1120980736