1864
Albumen Photographs of Southern History
Published on 12. April 2018
Book
Hardback
64 pages
978-1-943948-11-6 (ISBN)
Description
"Los Angeles photographer, Matthew Brandt, is a bit of a rock star in the photography world, challenging our ideas about photographic materials. His methodologies where process and subject matter are stirred up into whole new ways of seeing and thinking about the image, open the door to possibility." - Lenscratch
In 1864, Matthew Brandt recreates George N. Barnard's 19th century images of a devastated, post-Sherman Atlanta. Using source imagery housed at the Library of Congress, he makes new albumen photographs from Barnard's images.
Fortifying the foundational ingredients of the 19th-century albumen print - egg whites, silver nitrate, and salt - with peaches, sugar, flour, cinnamon, and butter, Brandt plays with external assumptions about the South, at the same time revealing a complex understanding of the complicated history his project explores.
In 1864, Matthew Brandt recreates George N. Barnard's 19th century images of a devastated, post-Sherman Atlanta. Using source imagery housed at the Library of Congress, he makes new albumen photographs from Barnard's images.
Fortifying the foundational ingredients of the 19th-century albumen print - egg whites, silver nitrate, and salt - with peaches, sugar, flour, cinnamon, and butter, Brandt plays with external assumptions about the South, at the same time revealing a complex understanding of the complicated history his project explores.
Reviews / Votes
* "Matthew Brandt's approach to photography is both process and conceptually driven, an approach shared with a diverse group of photo artists such as Marco Breuer, Alison Rossiter, John Chiara, and Chris McCaw, all of whom were included in the exhibition Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography at the Getty in 2015." - Saint Lucy* "The book layout and overall design feels like a tribute to some traditional books and methods, from the book cloth to the size to the layout. I think personally it really sets the tone for the images and the subject matter." - Float Magazine
* "1864 is printed with a full range of tones and a varnish-like layer that adds depth to the images. I applaud Yoffy Press for taking on this project and making the book a well-crafted and presented work. The linen cover evokes a sentiment that fits the time period of the original work, and adds a textural layer of meaning to the presentation of Brandt's images." - F-Stop Magazine
* "Los Angeles photographer, Matthew Brandt, is a bit of a rock star in the photography world, challenging our ideas about photographic materials. His methodologies where process and subject matter are stirred up into whole new ways of seeing and thinking about the image, open the door to possibility." - Lenscratch
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
B&W and sepia photos throughout (albumen prints)
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 203 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-943948-11-6 (9781943948116)
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Persons
Work by Matthew Brandt is in the permanent collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Brooklyn Museum, New York; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. Matthew Brandt was one of seven artists featured in the 2015 exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography. A solo exhibition of his work, Sticky/Dusty/Wet, was presented by the Columbus Museum of Art and traveled to the Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art in 2014. Brandt's first monograph, Lakes and Reservoirs, co-published by Damiani and Yossi Milo Gallery, was released in Fall 2014. Brandt was born in California in 1982 and received his BFA from The Cooper Union in New York and his MFA from UCLA. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.