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The audience at Comic-Con International on Friday was treated to a preview of the fifth and final season of Breaking Bad, along with spoilers and hints about what lies ahead for AMC's acclaimed drama.
Mike Schneider of TV Guide introduced the panel, and revealed he's seen the first two episodes, saying, "You are in for the same ride, and let me just say that killing off Gus Fring [in the Season 4 finale] opened up a whole new set of problems for our guys, not to mention Mike."
The preview (below) opens with a showdown between enforcer Mike Ehrmantraut (played by Jonathan Banks) and Walter White (three-time Emmy winner Bryan Cranston) over the death of Gus Fring, with Jesse Pinkman (Emmy winner Aaron Paul) between them. We see flashes that Walter will attempt to fill the vacuum in the meth market left behind by the death of Fring. Along the way he'll try to bring along everyone else with him, either by enticement or by threat, including Jesse, Saul Goodman and his wife Skyler. And we further see him burning down the remnants of Fring's old operation and starting up a new one. The preview was met with loud cheers from the Comic-Con crowd.
After the preview, Schneider introduced the panel: creator/showrunner Vince Gilligan and cast members Anna Gunn (Skylar White), R.J. Mitte (Walter White Jr.), Betsy Brandt (Marie Schrader), Dean Norris (Hank Schrader), Jonathan Banks (Mike Ehrmantraut), Aaron Paul (Jesse Pinkman) and Bryan Cranston (Walter White).
But these were no ordinary stage entrances. To begin with, Norris showed up in an outrageous Xena: Warrior Princess-like outfit. Not to be outdone, Paul and Cranston entered wearing their meth-cooking Hazmat suits, handing off a fake bag of meth to the moderator as they removed their costumes and took their seats.
Schneider started off by asking whether the transformation of Cranston's character would continue or if it was complete. Gilligan responded with a question of his own: "How many guys think that Walter is as bad as he can get?", eliciting a shout of "No!" from the audience. "I think there's worse he could get," the showrunner continued.
Asked if there were any redeeming qualities left in Walter, Cranston said, "Someone once asked me if Breaking Bad could have a happy ending, and I said, 'Have you been watching?' And perhaps the happy ending would be that he dies. You know, I don't know. He's become so toxic, and so cancerous in and of himself, so maybe that's the way it has to go. But I truly don't know. No one knows here on this panel what's in this man's head [indicating Gillian]. We don't know what he's going to do. We don't ask, and he doesn't tell us, and we like him that way."
Asked what he's learned from playing Walter, Cranston replied, "Every single one of us has that capability to become dangerous. Given the right set of circumstances, it could happen."
Gilligan wouldn't reveal whether Walter's cancer will re-emerge, saying, "That is certainly one of the biggest threats looming out there."
"I can think of a threat to Walter," Cranston said, gesturing toward Norris. "That man down there, Xena, princess warrior. He's a threat. You look really good in that, by the way."
Addressing the evolution of Jesse, Paul revealed, "At the beginning he was just this lost kid struggling with finding his way, and he just screws everything up. … I think Jesse's just happy to have his partner back, you know, and move forward."
As for Skylar, and whether she can ever trust Walt again, Gunn said, "At the end of last season when she realizes that he had something to do with — that he was the mastermind behind Gus' death, that hit her so hard that I don't know that that's a corner she can turn, and I think that's a question that we're still pondering around here. I know I am."
Asked if Skylar would try to flee again, Gilligan said, "At some point you gotta plant your flag and stand your ground, and I think we might see Skylar do that this year."
Turning to Banks, Schneider asked how his Mike character would deal with not being in control any more. The actor replied, "I don't know that Mike's ever had anything under control. I think Mike got lost a long, long time ago. I think he has people that he needs to take care of, and so he moves forward, with great trepidation."
Banks laughed when he was asked whether he can reveal what's in store for his character. "No, 'cause I got handed a list of things I can't talk about for next season by Vince," he said, "and I'm lucky I even got asked a question, for Christ's sake."
Asked about in Hank Season 5, Norris said, "I think he's got his mojo back. He was obviously proven correct. I think Hank has always been a guy that needs to be doing his job, and if he's not doing his job he's not very happy. He's now back doing his job, and he's going to be hot on his trail."
"I'd like to take credit for Hank getting his mojo back," Brandt, who plays his wife Marie, offered. Asked where she sees the character in the fifth season, she replied, "For Marie, it's about her relationships. With Hank, and with the White family, and we just see more of that in this season."
As for Walter White Jr., and what his reaction would be to finding out about his father, Mitte said, "I have no idea. I have complete faith in Vince to create this whole madness. But come on, it's his father, he has to love his family. I'm excited to see what will happen with Walt Jr., it's going to be an interesting ride."
After a brief introduction of some of the writers sitting in the audience, Gilligan spoke about the process of plotting out the series, and how fluid the process tends to be. Several characters who were intended to be bit parts, or played by different actors, were switched around and reformatted as the story played out. Asked about the rumor that Gilligan was planning to kill off Jesse in the first season, Gilligan replied, "Hey, I still might. No, I would never do that. But that was the original plan, was to kill him off after he helped Mr. White gain his entrée to the business and teach him everything he knows."
Gilligan admitted to writing himself into corner and having to find a way out, saying, "Yeah, oh man, many a time. For instance, that scene in that junkyard — Mike is right outside the door. We didn't know what the hell to do … the brilliance of Walter White is he comes up with this all himself, whereas it takes seven of us writers working through the night to come up with it."
Asked whether viewers will see the Germans this season, Gilligan acknowledged, "Yeah, the Germans are going to play a role this season. They are the company that bankrolled Gus, a silent partner, perhaps. It's going to open up the world a bit."
Hinting at new characters that will be introduced, Gilligan said, "We're going to meet an interesting lady, a wonderful actress named Laura Fraser. I've never met her, but I've seen her in the editing room for many hours on end. She's a former associate of Gus. She's going to make life interesting for a couple of these folks in the panel."
Asked about the theme of the upcoming season, he said, "This season is about winning, and what it is to stay on top."
Cranston added, "You'd think that, after narrowly being killed and having your entire family being threatened, a sane person would say, 'Wow, that was a close call, let's get out of here, let's get out of this.' Not Walter White. He's found a new power, and it's his ego. He's got this drive to be the best. He's ready to take on the world — the tension of this last season that we show felt far more stressful than the previous ones."
Paul continued that thought, saying, "The tone of this season is just eerie. It's just creepy. You know that episode 'Crawlspace,' where Skylar finds Walt in the crawl space searching for the money, and he just starts laughing, and you have this unsettling feeling? That's how this entire season felt."
Cranston hinted that season premiere, which airs Sunday at 10 p.m. ET/PT, will be more intellectual than violent, and funnier than most episodes they've done. "There's a lot of dark humor in this season that we were not reaching for particularly, but it's there," he said.
At that, Schneider prompted Paul to repeat what he felt would be the best line of the upcoming premiere. Paul smiled and said, "Magnets, bitch!"
Asked if we have finally seen the last of the Aztec camper, Gilligan replied, "You might see the Aztec again."
Speaking to where the final 16 episodes will take us, Cranston said, "There is an expansion of our group. We have to let in a few more people to our secret. And as the saying goes, you're only as strong as your weakest link. And that becomes very apparent, at about midway through this season, where we have some issues."
Gilligan also noted that Jesse Plemons will join the cast. "He plays a very important character," Cranston said.
"We'll see a little more Skinny Pete," Gilligan added.
Speaking to the Saul character, whom he confirmed will appear in Season 5, Gilligan said, "He's one of the few characters who really knows who he is. He doesn't lie to himself about who he is, but actually enjoys this world. Maybe until now, he's in a little over his head now at the end of Season 4."
Asked where there would be any clues early in the season as to where the series is headed, Gilligan said, "It will be right there in plain sight, in the first few moments of the episode." Cranston added, "You saw a glimpsed= of something, in the preview we showed, from the inside of the trunk of a car. Yeah."
Turning to questions from the audience, the cast was asked about their favorite episodes. "I loved the scene where Brian and I got to kick the shit out of each other," Paul answered. "For me, it's always the pilot, when I was experiencing the yin and yang of the thing, where he was as a person, and where he was going," Cranston said. "Also, the episode 'Four Days Out' was great."
Speaking to the "Four Days Out" episode, which was intended as a bottle episode at one location, Gilligan said, "Episode 5 of this season is whatever the polar opposite of a bottle episode would be." "It's really the first time in the history of Breaking Bad that we didn't shoot entirely in Albuquerque," Cranston said. "Oh, yeah, it was Santa Fe," Gilligan added.
Asked if there were any redeeming qualities left in the White character, Gilligan said, "He does something this season that I — as a viewer of the show I would probably say, 'You know what? I've lost all sympathy.'"
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Unlike the two Japanese fighters Lomachenko was regarded as one of the greatest amateur fighters of all time. He was pushed quickly by an American promoter and given huge attention by the boxing press in Europe and US. That attention helped him to tie the long standing record of Saensak Muangsurin in winning a world title in just his third professional bout.
In his fourth bout Lomachenko made the first defense of his title, the WBO Featherweight title, as he bamboozled, out boxed, out fought, out moved and just did as he wished with Thai veteran Chonlatarn Piriyapinyo (52-2, 33).
In the opening round it was clear the men were in completely different levels with Lomachenko doing as he wished against Chonlatarn who fought a very timid round. It was a start that suggested that Chonlatarn was afraid of Lomachenko's great amateur credentials and as a result it was a poor round to watch.
Thankfully, for those watching, Chonlatarn did up the work rate round after round and tried to make a fight of things. Sadly for the Thai however the more he opened up the more opportunities he gave to Lomachenko who danced around the ring, landed at will and did as he pleased whilst also getting some valuable ring time.
The ability of Lomachenko was really on show in round 4 as he put on an exhibition for the first 2 minutes of the round before dropping the teak tough Thai very late in round. The Thai, to his credit, recovered and saw out what was left of the round though it appeared that he was only in the fight for as long as Lomachenko wanted to carry him.
Having been dropped in round 4 it was great to see Chonlatarn on the front foot through rounds 5 and 6 though he failed to have much success in either round despite coming forward and pressuring the ultra-skilled Ukrainian fighter who showed his class with a sensational burst of punches late in the round 6.
With the bout under total control Lomachenko spent much of round 7 taunting and teasing Chonlatarn. It was an exhibition in show boating even if it did come at the expense of his offensive which went frustratingly quiet for a round. It seemed that Lomachenko had injured his left hand but he was still managing to put on a masterful display of pure boxing against an experienced and world class opponent.
Although Lomachenko was effectively down to one hand he was still managing to completely dominate the Thai and round 9 was a masterclass with Chonlatarn looking confused by what was coming at him. The same again applied in round 10 as Lomahcneko seemed to step on the gas slightly and back up the Thai who looked like he was completely frustrated by what was happening in the ring.
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What Does Visual Culture Deal With? Visual Culture in the broad sense deals
with focusing on culturally significant
matter and it's visual depictions. It mostly
deals with consumer interaction with
visual matter propagated through various
means of what is known as 'Visual
Technology'. Mind Map
Visual Culture -The major impact on how people perceives on popular visual media.
- Invoking emotion and other human senses.
- Exploring people of different backgrounds respond to visuals related media.
- create an understanding through visuals.
- Is definite importance to our modern era, especially with advancement of technology overtime.
HARU~ TELEVISION BOOKS & MAGAZINES ART VIDEO GAMES ADVERTISEMENTS What do Visual Culture
relate to? visual content and codes migrate from one form to another print images and graphic design Tv and cable TV Internet fine art and photography fashion architecture, design, and urban design represent step Institutions Macro
Education / Academe / Schooling
The Family
Religion, Church
Governance, the State
Social class system Micro
Media System and its differentiation of forms and technologies
System of Professions (Law, Medicine, Business, etc.)
Art and the Artworld system
Fashion Jovan
VIsual Culture is a form of enhancement and modification to any form of art , so as to amplify the effect and notion of it. This causes an alteration and impact towards our visual capability. Graphic Design VS Art History It is much easier to place Visual Culture in context with pieces of art from the Renaissance, Classical, and Chinese cultures and periods because the visual culture seems to "interpenetrate" the works. Due to these new visual devices, such as graphic design and computer manipulation of images, this does not happen in the modern period the same way. Graphic Design is present almost everywhere, in magazines, newspapers and the Internet. Commercial art is obviously more persuasive than fine art; however, graphic design is just as much influenced by social and cultural factors as fine art, but perhaps in a more noticeable way. Yanti identity Visual Culture & Everyday Life Digital images now dominate production of images in every medium. Everyday experience in a city involves navigating and decoding multiple kinds of visual codes and signs. Most of our visual language is channeled through media--newspapers, magazines, television, video, film, computer screens and software interfaces, Web and Internet visual content. qiyun It is interesting to take note of the identity
that visual depictions can create for
themselves. Visual Culture plays a huge
role in every facet of branding and leaving
an impact, regardless of whether it is
contemporary culture or traditional culture.
Here are some notable examples. inspire information
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Former PHP security team member Stefan Esser has launched a Month of PHP Bugs by posting five vulnerabilities.
The point of the Month of PHP Bugs is to demonstrate that PHP isn't as secure as it could be if the PHP core language developers adopted different processes of inspecting and rolling out new versions of PHP. Esser said that all the bugs to be posted this month will pertain to the core PHP engine itself and not to applications based on PHP. Application developers often write PHP application code that's exploitable.
Of the first five vulnerabilities posted, two could cause a system crash, one could cause maximum CPU usage thereby creating a Denial of Service (DoS) condition, and two can be exploited to cause data overflow conditions. Proof of concept code was posted for the two overflow vulnerabilities in an effort to curb the potential claim that the bugs aren't exploitable. No such proof is necessary for the other three vulnerabilities.
According to details published by Esser, two of the vulnerabilities are already fixed in the current 4.x and 5.x versions of PHP, and three will likely go unfixed due to the PHP developers' preferred operational characteristics for PHP. Esser said that a possible workaround for two of the latter three vulnerabilities would be to integrate his Suhosin security patch for PHP. The remaining vulnerability can be fixed by specific coding practices when developing PHP applications.


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Final Frontier Medical Devices
About Us
Final Frontier Medical Devices, a Pennsylvania-based team led by brothers Dr. Basil Harris, an emergency medicine physician, and George Harris, a network engineer, took home the 1st place, receiving $2.6M for their artificial intelligence-based engine, DxtER, that learns to diagnose medical conditions by integrating learnings from clinical emergency medicine with data analysis from actual patients. DxtER includes a group of non-invasive sensors that are designed to collect data about vital signs, body chemistry and biological functions. This information is then synthesized in the device's diagnostic engine to make a quick and accurate assessment.
Basil Leaf Technologies was started in 2012 to develop interactive, consumer-level products that empower individuals to monitor and improve their personal health. Basil Leaf Technologies' team, Final Frontier Medical Devices, is led by brothers Dr. Basil Harris, an emergency medicine physician, and George Harris, a network engineer. Their extensive accomplishments over the last 20 years bridge the fields of medicine and technology. The team brings together expertise in medicine, surgery, programming, signal processing, hardware design, medical sensors, user experience design, health policy and mobile tech.
Technical Innovation
The team created DxtER (pronounced Dexter), a tricorder prototype, for the Qualcomm Tricorder XPRIZE competition. DxtER is a consumer product designed to monitor your health and diagnose illnesses in the comfort of your own home. DxtER functions autonomously, but can also share important information with your healthcare providers at your discretion. At the heart of DxtER is an artificially intelligent engine that learned to diagnose by integrating years of experience in clinical emergency medicine with data analysis from actual patients having a variety of medical conditions and outcomes. Included with DxtER is a collection of non-invasive sensors custom-designed to collect data about your vital signs, body chemistry, and biological functions. The diagnostic engine synthesizes your health data to make a quick and accurate assessment.
About Team Leader
Basil is a physician with a Ph.D. in engineering. He has been actively practicing emergency medicine for more than twelve years at Lankenau Medical Center on the edge of Philadelphia. In 2016 he was named a Top Doctor by Main Line Today for the third time. Despite his daily regimen of chaos in the ER, his engineering training is ever present. Basil received his undergraduate and graduate engineering degrees from Drexel and Cornell Universities. He has research experience in medicine and engineering with over a dozen publications.
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New Accuser Says Bill Cosby Assaulted Her in 1984
Heidi Thomas claims Cosby assaulted her at a mentoring session.
Yet another new woman is accusing Bill Cosby of sexual assault, claiming the comedian abused her in Nevada in 1984. Former model Heidi Thomas tells CNN that she was approached by an agent who told her Cosby was looking for "young talent [to] mentor." She says she accepted, and was promptly flown out to Reno to meet with him. While there, Thomas says, Cosby instructed her to act drunk, then gave her a glass of wine that made her memory "foggy." She claims she later woke up in bed with him "forcing himself in [her] mouth," but left before Cosby could have sex with her. Thomas says she initially blamed herself for what happened and even apologized to Cosby for being "rude." But now she tells CNN she wants to look the comedian in the eyes and ask him, "Do you remember me?"


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Spend three weeks in Athens studying the classical roots of democracy as well as more recent efforts to maintain democratic institutions in the face of severe economic challenges—a huge influx of immigrants, the development of the European Union, and struggles by the government to provide efficient and transparent services.
SPEA in Athens
Places you will visit during the SPEA in Athens program
Learn more about the SPEA in Athens program
- Program dates
May 8 - May 29, 2018
- Course information
V482 – Democratic Institutions and Ideals in Classical and Contemporary Greece (3cr.)
Program Director: Paul Helmke
This three-credit course explores both the development of democracy in Classical Greece and the efforts of contemporary inhabitants of Greece to strengthen democratic institutions and ideals such as freedom, equality, inclusiveness, and transparency. The first part of the course focuses on Athenian democracy in the 5th and 4th centuries B.C., paying particular attention to the role of citizens and citizenship. Much of the second part of the course will focus on the limitations of the state in promoting democratic institutions and ideals in contemporary Greece and on efforts by the business and nonprofit communities to strengthen democracy by circumventing an ineffective government.
In addition to taking classes on the beautiful campus of the American College of Greece, you will also have the opportunity to meet leading figures from the Greek government as well as from Greek foundations and businesses. There will be ample opportunities to explore the historic sites of Athens and the gorgeous islands off of the mainland, both independently and with your instructors.
- Group excursions
- Visit the Acropolis (and the new Acropolis Museum), the most important ancient site in the Western world
- Take a trip to Delphi, the center of the ancient world
- Visit Nafplio, the first capital of the newly independent Greece of the 1820s
- Take numerous weekday and evening trips around Athens, visiting inspiring sites and meeting leaders of Greek society
- Join in on weekend trips to gorgeous Greek islands
- Who may apply
The course is limited to current and former members of the Civic Leaders Center. To participate in this course, you should have at least a 3.0 GPA or the express permission of Professor Helmke.
- Accommodations
You will stay in attractive apartments and take classes on the campus of the American College of Greece, easily accessible via bus and metro to downtown Athens. (It is also where the members of the U.S. Olympic team stayed and practiced before the 2004 Olympics.) All rooms come fully furnished and have modern air conditioning and Wi-Fi. Additionally, you will have access to excellent libraries, study halls, computer labs, and athletic facilities as well as to numerous local stores and cafes.
- Cost
Note: You will pay two amounts – the tuition, which is what Indiana University credits cost, and you will also pay the SPEA Abroad Program fee.
2018 SPEA in Athens Program Fee: $2,200*
The program fee includes lodging, medical insurance, some meals, and cultural excursions.
* Program fee is subject to change due to unforeseeable circumstances
IUB Tuition – 3 credits
The tuition cost for SPEA in Athens is based on IU Bloomington tuition. The amount of tuition you pay will vary based on your student status.
Additional Costs
You will need to pay for your flight to Athens, transportation to and from the airport, food that is not included in the program and other incidentals.
All current and former Civic Leaders are eligible for the SPEA Abroad Summer Scholarship (50% of the program fee up to a maximum of $1500) for the SPEA in Athens Program, even if you are not a SPEA student. However, you must meet the application deadlines and other eligibility criteria. See our scholarship page for details.
Other scholarships are available on a competitive basis.
- Resources
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Lavie Tidhar and Andre Siregar
from the story "Mr. Spellman's Last Dance," in Grave Conditions, available at Haunted Computer
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Grave Conditions now available for order!
Brian Keene, Jonathan Maberry, J.A. Konrath, Stephen Susco, William Harms...three digital issues or a 100-page trade paperback. Grave Conditions now available at Haunted Computer
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As the boys basketball regular season comes to a close, a couple of Mansfield teams' playoff hopes are still alive and well, and things could play out very interestingly in the postseason.
Summit is currently in the best position of all the MISD teams, seeded second in the District 15-4A standings with two games remaining in the regular season.
The Jaguars defeated Red Oak by a score of 74-62 on Friday to improve to 8-3 overall in district competition and maintain a one game lead over third place Arlington Seguin.
Lovell Cabbil led the team in scoring with 19 points in the game, while Corinthian Ramsey added 12 points, and Keilyn Nance scored 10 points for the Jags.
Terrance Hubby scored eight points in the game, while Jaberri Fountain added five, Doug Palacio scored 4 points, and Kerrion Campbell and Phillip Hollis each scored three points a piece.
Richard Evans, Larenz Lester, Diego Sanchez, Keion Scofield and Vernon Scott each scored 2 points a piece in the game for Summit.
Coach Jason Mutterer could not be reached for comment.
Lake Ridge has hit a bit of skid in recent weeks, losing on Friday to Lancaster by a score of 75-68.
Jacob Van led the team in scoring with 20 points in the game, while Ryan Woolridge added 18 points and Julian Harris scored 16 points in the game for Lake Ridge.
Isaak Rowe, Jourdan Taylor and Oluwatinilehin Onilogbo each combined for 14 points in the game for Lake Ridge.
Lancaster is currently ranked fourth in the state in the TABC poll.
The Eagles were still in fourth place in the district standings heading into Tuesday's game with Waxahachie, and they will play Arlington Seguin at 7:30 p.m. on Friday.
Legacy was 3-8 in district competition heading into this week, as were both Mansfield and Timberview in the 5A district for Mansfield schools.
Timberview's Alex Robinson has had a phenomenal season, averaging more than 17 points and four assists per game this season, while teammate Tyus Momoh has averaged more than 14 points and five rebounds per game.


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This article traces Richard Hamilton's use of photography and digital technologies to subtly undermine verisimilitude in his print The annunciation 2005. Making numerous comparisons to Fra Angelico's San Marco Annunciation, the work that inspired Hamilton's print, the article aims to deconstruct the latter both technically and iconographically.
The annunciation 2005 (fig.1) is one of the few prints by Richard Hamilton that in its faithful simulation of a real, or potentially real, place comes close to the effect of the photographs that are its source. Like many of Hamilton's recently editioned works, The annunciation is a digital ink-jet print. It was created from a number of photographic sources on a Macintosh G5 using Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, and published as an edition of sixty, with six artist's proofs, in Hamilton's home-based digital studio at Northend Farm.1
In Painting by Numbers, his 2006 London exhibition at the Alan Cristea Gallery, Hamilton displayed his most recent editions, which included The annunciation and the related Chiara & Chair 2004. In the accompanying catalogue he explored the relationship of photography to digital printmaking, a long-time preoccupation of his. In the introduction Hamilton tells the anecdote of one loyal collector who had declined to purchase The annunciation. When asked why, the collector replied, 'It's just a photograph.'2
Hamilton describes The annunciation as a 'direct response to Fra Angelico's great annunciation fresco to be found in the corridor of San Marco' (fig.2). 3 The print is as much a critique of the photographic and digital media with which it is made, as it is an examination of an art work and theme that have long obsessed Hamilton. In allaying and aggravating our uncertainties through an abstruse exploitation of its medium, this image begins to assume some of the numinous qualities associated with the work of fourteenth-century century painters such as Fra Angelico.
In The annunciation Hamilton renders a gallery interior with a secondary image displayed within it. This internal image, which appears to be a photorealist painting of a seated nude female, hangs on a wall. The wall is parallel to the plane of the print, a spatial construction that evokes the sensation of standing within a gallery. Indeed, much of the visual information supplied in the print (the white painted walls and the industrial lighting and flooring) reinforces our conception of the space as such. That Hamilton's annunciation should be located in the pristine, but minimalist, interior of a gallery seems a deliberate choice: the 'modern art space' may be thought of as a contemporary parallel to the unembellished chambers of the San Marco monastery. Hamilton invites us to practise our secular rituals of reverence, just as Fra Angelico intended his viewers, the resident Dominican friars, to genuflect in imitation of Gabriel while repeating an 'Ave' before the sacred image.4
In the Painting by Numbers catalogue, Hamilton discloses the origin of the gallery space depicted in the print. He describes his process for generating seven pieces (one per wall) for a 1995 show called Five Rooms held at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery in London. 5 His suite of seven photograph-derived works (called Seven Rooms) represented as many rooms in Hamilton's house. He first photographed each of the exhibition walls in the Gallery (including floors, spotlights and beams) and scanned them into his computer. He then digitally placed the cropped and modified photographs of his own home onto the scans of the gallery walls. Each resultant four-foot high Cibachrome print was laminated onto canvas and installed on the gallery wall it depicted.6
Both the photograph of the wall that appears in The annunciation and the photograph that formed the basis of the figurative 'painting' on that wall in the print were derived from the d'Offay exhibition. The wall photograph represents the d'Offay wall onto which Hamilton had previously placed an image of his bathroom; the final piece, Seven Rooms – Bathroom, was shown in Five Rooms as part of the Seven Rooms suite. The image used for the 'painting' in The annunciation was a photograph taken of Hamilton's bedroom, which he shifted to another wall for the Five Rooms exhibition.7
The original photograph of the d'Offay Gallery underwent a computerised process that changed everything – and seemingly nothing. Hamilton laboriously deconstructed, then reconstructed, the interior space of the gallery in The annunciation; nine state proofs were generated during the manipulation of the walls alone. 8 (figs.3a–i). First, Hamilton used what he refers to as Adobe Illustrator's 'vocabulary of vector description' to adjust the quality of the spot lighting and subtly alter the gradation of the walls, which he described as 'reminiscent of an early Renaissance perspectival space'. 9 Each component of the photograph (excepting the grate, light fixture, floor and window) was contained in a separate 'layer' in the computer program and thus modified in isolation. These layers could be switched on and off, allowing the artist to assess in detail the harmony between the parts. The changes realised at this stage focused exclusively on the gallery interior; Hamilton here strove to replicate the nuanced effects he had achieved in his screenprint TiT 2002.10
To create The annunciation two images were merged or 'collaged' together: 11 a 1994 photograph of the bedroom with an empty chair, and a 1997 photograph of a model sitting in the bedroom in the same chair.12 Once Hamilton had isolated the seated figure from her original context, he resolved her scale and, crucially, the shadows her shape engendered (paying special attention to the colour of the shadow – at once the articulation of her weight and the proof of it – across the chair's seat).13 He eliminated the 'unnecessary' visual information of light sockets, cord and radiator. Then he softened the contrast, which, at the final scale of the print, lends the work its central element of ambiguity. Is that a photograph on the wall? A painting? A photorealist painting? At this stage Hamilton printed out his image and painted over the figure. He gave her an electric-yellow shock of hair where the light source would illuminate it and carefully blurred the paint around her head, thus dulling the digital crispness of her silhouette and suggesting a halo. Then he simplified, and made more graphic, the highlight beneath her brow, made the contour of her nose more prominent and, finally, smoothed the geometry of shadows cast across her body. Most striking, perhaps, is the treatment of the figure's expression: Hamilton transformed her countenance from passive to wide-eyed. Her eye, eerily blue, glistens, and her mouth is caught in speech, lips wrapped around a word. She does not seem, like Fra Angelico's Virgin, to be idly reacting to the news of her fate, but then, in Hamilton's print, Fra Angelico's winged messenger has been reincarnated as a cordless telephone.
Prior to his adoption of digital media, Hamilton spoke of the usefulness of 'incorporating photosensitive techniques into the artist's range of media,' but concluded that the 'attendant difficulties' were such that the
least problematic, and certainly most permanent, solution is to paint simulations of photography for those passages demanding it. Print, in its many varieties, can give all the desired advantages but reduce the technical problems. Integration between hand-drawn and photographic elements can be total; collage assumes another meaning when material unification of the pictorial components is absolute. 14
This predilection for a fully integrated picture plane, where disparate images and sources are manipulated into a single medium, prompted Richard Field in Print Quarterly to suggest that the computer is 'a modern technology tailor-made for [Hamilton's] enterprise.' 15 Using this new technology Hamilton can feed in whatever 'input' and be ensured harmonised 'output'. One of the paradoxes of digital printmaking – because it is possible to layer image upon image infinitely without risking technical failure – is that the resulting prints so often appear flat; in digital printing the act of impression is elided.
While printmaking techniques have been fixed in traditional processes, digital printing is constantly evolving; its techniques quickly become outmoded with the development of new software and updated hardware. Despite his programming skills (and his dedicated acquisition of hardware), it was not until 1987 that Hamilton claimed to have conceived of using a computer as an artistic tool:
It was not until I was asked to participate in a series of programmes made in 1987 for the BBC that I saw the potential of using a computer to manipulate images. Six artists were invited to contribute to a series called Painting with Light. The 'Paintbox' computer, developed by the British company Quantel, was designed to be operated by an artist to draw and paint on a cathode ray tube as freely as with brush and pigment on paper. I owned and operated a Quantel Paintbox (1992–99) and a later model called Printbox. All the prints and paintings I made subsequently utilided, in a variety of ways, digital image processing equipment.16
The Quantel Paintbox, which Hamilton has described as allowing the artist 'to combine the manipulative ability of the painter with the instant creativity of photography', required an auxiliary Apple Macintosh to convert the completed image to a printable file. 17 For this reason, and in the interest of keeping abreast of new technologies, Hamilton eventually replaced the Paintbox with a Macintosh computer.
Throughout the period of his engagement with digital media Hamilton has often referred to the problem of 'resolution'. He describes resolution as 'the fineness of detail that can be distinguished in an image'. 18 The 'resolution problem', then, is that modern technologies cannot concentrate enough dots in a square inch for an image to conceal and belie its digitalness. Hamilton describes the trajectory of both his experience with, and expectations for, digital resolution:
The first printer I was able to plug into my computer was a simple dot matrix device limited to printing each alphabetic character composed from a group of dots on a 9 x 5 regular grid. A modern inkjet printer's specification enables a resolution of 2880 dpi [dots per inch]. The benchmark hard copy that digital output is up against is both difficult to achieve and impossible to beat. It is the 100% resolution that any painting possesses without much effort. How many dots to the inch are required to simulate matter?19
Yet, the computer's intermediary role between artist and art work requires that its product be simulation of substance rather than substance itself. Inasmuch as the computer is a technology designed to create and modify information and not material, it will never allow the creation of matter as it is conveyed, feelingly, from artist's brush to paper.
The question of 'resolution' is central to The annunciation, for the print's creative process necessitated the translation of visual information from photographic emulsion to pixels. Pixels are, in turn, subject to the aesthetic violence of dots per inch. Yet, the completed 'wall file', having been sufficiently altered from its photographic precursor, looks as though it achieves an unnerving hyper-reality, the ineluctable consequence of the refinement of digital printing. For this reason resolution remains its weakness; in approaching seamlessness, the appearance of the print undoes the ambition to totally disguise its origins. In 1998 Hamilton envisioned the computer-crafted future of virtual reality: 'It is now possible for computers to provide a visual experience of a three-dimensional kind in real time – they can create a virtual reality analogous to our perception of the real world … Understandably, resolution is somewhat limited at the moment … But it won't be many years before the experience will be something like real life.'20 A decade after this initial prediction, the capacity for computers to generate a likeness to reality is upon us. Although grounded in it, the digital image is gradually supplanting the traditional photograph's role as the lens through which we represent, and apprehend, reality.
While The annunciation does not require an actual or sculptural context to mirror its internal one – as did the Seven Rooms pieces installed in Documenta X – much of the intellectual motivation for that series is evident in the print. The image relies on false illusion; it posits a never-existent reality that capitalises on our trust in the photographic image. Hamilton has acknowledged the photograph's capacity to deceive: 'Photography is a medium with its own conventions though we treat its products as a truth less flexible than hand-done art. Yet photographs of a given scene can be as unlike each other as each might be from a painting of that scene.'21 In The annunciation Hamilton employs photography to convince us of what we are looking at, much as a film camera's lens can convey reality as long as it does not stray from the confines of the set. The idea of the constructed set (of multiple levels of unreality) has always interested Hamilton and many of his works have addressed this preoccupation.22 Throughout his career he has explored the strata of visual deception inherent in many of his photographic source materials. Here, he deconstructs a still from the 1949 film Shockproof starring Patricia Knight:
A very wide-angle lens must have been used because the perspective seemed distorted; but the disquiet in the scene was due to two other factors. It was a film set, not a real room, so wall surfaces were not explicitly conjoined; and the lighting came from several different sources. Since the scale of the room had not become unreasonably enlarged, as one might expect from the use of a wide angle lens, it could be assumed that false perspective had been introduced to counteract its effect – yet the foreground remained emphatically close and the recession extreme.23
Though this observation was in response to a film still, it could equally apply to the space in Hamilton and Fra Angelico's Annunciations; both compositions affirm and subvert rational space. Despite Fra Angelico's meticulous trompe l'œil effects in creating an illusionistic, orthogonally chamfered 'frame' around his composition, the internal space is dominated by a drastically different, much higher viewpoint. The same is true of Hamilton's annunciation; where the 'frame' of the surrounding gallery space is articulated in rational perspective, the floor of the internal composition cants downward, thereby elevating the horizon and placing the viewer below the Virgin Annunciate.
In the San Marco monastery, relatively little space exists between the top of the stairs and the wall on which The Annunciation (fig.2) is painted. Fra Angelico's decision to undermine the perspective to which he had vigorously adhered in rendering the frame may have been in the interest of extending the space within the fresco beyond that of the architectural surface underlying it. In the gallery space of Hamilton's annunciation, Mary's worshippers would find themselves similarly confined to a narrow strip of floor, their gaze drawn deeply into the space of the composition, beyond the Virgin even, and into the wilds of the artist's hortus conclusus. The Fra Angelico Annunciation looks most similar to Hamilton's print when seen from the stairwell opposite. In providing context, this vantage point evokes the tension between architecture and art that must have influenced Hamilton's vision for his print as much as, or more so than, the fresco itself.
The annunciation was conceived as part of a group of works intended for an exhibition in Florence, where Hamilton envisioned his subjects in dialogue with the Angels and Virgins in the frescoes at San Marco. Although the exhibition never transpired, Hamilton uses the term 'nude angels' to collectively describe the subjects in these works, and has subsequently applied it to the majority of the figures featured in his Host of Angels exhibition.24 However, this term requires clarification. In traditional Christian iconography there can be no confusing the Angel for the Virgin; the two are made distinct by their separate roles and opposite genders, as in Fra Angelico's fresco. Hamilton concedes that 'some theologians would argue that angels are male, but I lean to Milton's view that they are pure spirits without substance or gender. Since pure spirits without substance are difficult to configure, the female form is my preferred option'.25 With this statement, Hamilton makes less controversial his depiction of Gabriel as a nude woman in The Passage of the Angel to the Virgin 2005–7 (fig.4); the Angel featured therein is, however, the same model used for the Virgin in The annunciation. Nonetheless, it is unlikely that the figure in The annunciation is meant to be the Angel, or a conflation of the two Biblical characters. A comparison with Fra Angelico's Annunciation strongly suggest that she is the Virgin: she is seated in an identical orientation, with the window to her left, as she receives a communication.
The annunciation does not merely reference the space and content of Fra Angelico's Annunciation; it repeatedly references itself through the various relationships between its own interiors. The spotlight, borrowed directly from the original d'Offay photograph, would illuminate the hanging art work just where the lamp in the bedroom generates its own glare, and the print would, in turn, be lit externally if ever hung in an exhibition. Similarly, Fra Angelico's Annunciation depended on the conditions of its environment; the flare of divine light streaming from left to right in the composition would have been intensified by real light from the small east-facing window to its left. In Hamilton's version, the nude figure, situated in her spatial duality, creates yet another 'interior,' albeit a psychological one, between herself and the initiator (or recipient) of the telephone call.
Hamilton more faithfully adapts other pictorial elements from the original fresco. In the background of Fra Angelico's painting, to Mary's left, a barred window admits the daylight and a hint of foliage.26 Fra Angelico imbued his composition with light, intended more to signify divinity than to suggest a passing of the daylight hours, but its orientation, east to west, left to right, suggests the rising sun.27 Hamilton's multiple-paned window, while more prominent, similarly frames the outside vegetation yet retains an ambiguity regarding time of day. The significance of Hamilton's window is augmented by its compositional counterpart: the parallel gallery window, through which the 'real world' ostensibly exists. Although nothing is visible through its foreshortened frame, it seems to retreat like the 'painted window', creating a disorientating volume between the panes; Mary hovers in spatial limbo. Moreover, the window functions iconographically as the point of entry of God's spirit in the form of a dove or, simply, as the Word. The latter would seem particularly apt in the case of Hamilton's annunciation, where neither angel nor God exists but in a plastic, cordless conveyor of words – or the Word, as the circumstances suggest. That the Virgin is indeed receiving the news of her fate via modern technology makes this piece an intuitive sequel to Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing? 1956, where the housewife pictured in the collage is seemingly liberated by the addition of a few extra feet of cord to her new vacuum cleaner. Here, Hamilton's Virgin reclines, receiving the Word wirelessly.
This little piece of humour is consistent with Hamilton's characteristic wit (and occasional flippancy), but the success of this work is more profound: the craft and subtlety of the image and fluency of technique make it startling to behold. It has a lustre and vibrancy that most digital prints have not achieved. It is this frequent shortcoming of digital printmaking that led Field to demand: 'Where is the resistance, the noise and the physical materiality of the digitally-driven ink-jet spray that migrates an image into the fibres of a sheet of paper without leaving a trace?'28 Yet the digital precision and flatness that have disquieted critics contribute significantly and crucially to the material purity of the print, which, in turn, bolsters the symbolic purity of its narrative content.
The photograph into which Hamilton places his female nude in The annunciation is a photograph of his bedroom, a detail he discloses in the accompanying catalogue Painting by Numbers and that hints at his omnipotent role as creator. With the power of technology at his disposal he can make his subject look lamp-lit or sun-lit, brunette or blonde, slim, even pregnant. The finished print, however, projects the sleek impregnability of a product of computer technologies. Hamilton is evidently aware of his digitally amplified abilities; the computer, unlike any other creative tool, offers the artist the ability to create and distort within the language of verisimilitude. The tension that arises in The annunciation derives from Hamilton's deft wielding of this vocabulary. What 'noise' we have come to expect from him, based on a career brimming with painterly flourish, is here eliminated. In its stead we have something pure: a virginal image, untainted – or so it seems – by the artist creator. His is a perfection coaxed imperceptibly from photographic realities; a sublimation of impulses, a masking of manipulations. That the print itself might serve as a place holder, or substitute, for the Virgin may have been a peripheral intention of Hamilton's; the print is not, after all, The Annunciation, but The annunciation – a patent avoidance of a capital and, possibly, a subtle disavowal of religious association.29 Perhaps the print is not at all what the title suggests (a variant of the Christian miracle), but a meditation on the act of creation, be it biological or technological. Much as the seminal collage, Just what is it …, brought together a group of cultural metonyms as a critique of a changing post-war society, The annunciation is a coalescence of those same concerns, re-aestheticised for a new era, one rife with technological advances.
Hamilton admits he would not have been opposed to the comment made by the aforementioned sceptical collector had the latter phrased his assessment differently: 'We would have been in complete agreement if [the] client had said 'It's just like a photograph.' The question 'in which way does this differ from a photograph?' is well worth the asking'.30 In the same passage, Hamilton expands: 'The task of recreating a photograph (for example, the background of The annunciation) in such a way that it is more like a photograph than the lens-generated original is interesting, even to the extent that its lack of flaws is what differentiates the simulation from the photograph.'31 Hamilton's effort at explanation is a sort of confession; by attempting to disentangle his digital ambitions from photographic ones, he effectively confirms the involution of the two media.
The annunciation is not the first of Hamilton's prints to redefine and exploit photography; most of them do.32 But it is the only one that does not make the exploitation completely evident. Almost every one of the artist's photograph-derived prints is obviously mediated by his hand; he typically makes such generous use of his brush that the viewer is never left doubting the provenance of the print. Only with The annunciation has Hamilton so absolutely, or willingly, subjected a print to the possible approximation of, and confusion with, photography.
Nonetheless, Hamilton's frustration at the remarks of the collector is understandable; the closer one gets to The annunciation, the more complex it becomes and the more worthy of examination. For all the advances of digital imaging, the product remains a traditional artefact: an image on a piece of square or rectangular two-dimensional paper, to be judged by standard visual criteria. Yet its content and form present a challenging critique of the nature of the photographic and the digital. Perhaps The annunciation does not offer the critique of photography with which we have come to associate Hamilton, but, in somehow exceeding photography, it may herald a new vision for printmaking. In attempting to understand this print as both a contemporary and historical object, we are suspended between the illusory and the real, just as, in Christian theology, the Virgin has been suspended between God and man.
- 1. The image measures 440 x 440 mm, while the paper (a Somerset Enhanced Radiant White Velvet) measures 680 x 594 mm. Hamilton's Epson Stylus Pro 9800 printer uses eight lightfast Epson UltraChrome K3 pigmented inks (with permanence ranging from 75–200 years) and prints 2,880 dots per inch. The print was distributed by the Alan Cristea Gallery in London.
- 2. R. Hamilton, Painting by Numbers, London: Edition Hansjörg Mayer, 2006, p.5.
- 3. Ibid., p.53.
- 4. W. Hood, Fra Angelico at San Marco, New Haven 1993, p.272.
- 5. The Five Rooms show dedicated each of the gallery's rooms to a different artist. The other four artists represented were Reinhard Mucha, Bruce Nauman, Bill Viola and Rachel Whiteread.
- 6. Hamilton, Painting by Numbers, p.48.
- 7. In order to show the suite of works, replete with their original significance, in Documenta X in 1997, the d'Offay Gallery room was reconstructed in Kassel, Germany, as a sculptural installation.
- 8. Hamilton, Painting by Numbers, p.51. A 'state proof' refers to a print pulled from an in-progress plate. State proofs are made both to document and gauge the development of an image. Here, Hamilton uses the term to mean a print-out of a computer file as it appeared on his screen.
- 9. Hamilton, Painting by Numbers, p.53. Hamilton's more recent digital piece, The Passage of the Angel to the Virgin 2005–7 reproduces, or rebuilds, the architecture depicted by Fra Angelico by translating the Renaissance artist's improbable set of rules and vanishing points into the computer language of Lightwave, without using a scanned image of the original fresco. Hamilton had previously used Lightwave in the construction of the gallery space in The annunciation, where the architecture is driven by comparable rigour and specificity.
- 10. TiT, an acronym for 'This is Tomorrow', alludes to the seminal exhibition held at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, in 1956, for which a number of artist-architect groups created themed 'environments'. The 'funhouse' room that resulted from Hamilton's collaboration was reconstructed for the exhibition The Independent Group: Postwar Britain and the Aesthetics of Plenty in 1990 and remains in the collection of the IVAM, Centre Julio González, Valencia. In 2000 the installation travelled to Kassel, Germany, for an exhibition of Hamilton's installations, Vier Räume, at Museum Fridericianum. The TiT print occasioned by this exhibition borrows its composition and imagery directly from a photograph taken of the 1956 installation. About thirty poster prints were made in offset lithography with poor results. The ensuing silkscreen, an effort to beautify – not merely correct – the lithograph, was printed with Brad Faine at Coriander Studio following the exhibition in Kassel. Although Hamilton's unexpected return to screenprinting seemed a concession to the aesthetic of an older medium, the image was first laboured over in Adobe Illustrator before the task of cutting thirty stencils could be undertaken. In 2002 Hamilton found the digital technology for printing a gradation less beautiful than the silkscreened alternative, if not necessarily inadequate. By 2005, however, the digital process had been sufficiently refined, allowing an image with gradations as intricate as those in The annunciation to be exquisitely – and archivally – printed by a digital ink-jet printer.
- 11. The analogy of computer collage to manual collage, as it relates to the evolution of Hamilton's practice, could be the subject of another article. Much has already been said of Hamilton's earlier use of collage, and how he pioneered, in his Pop Art bricolage, a tabulation of those cultural phenomena that most exerted their influence on him and his côterie. See Hal Foster, 'On the First Pop Age', New Left Review, no.19, January–February 2003.
- 12. This is the chair that appeared both in the intaglio print A Dedicated Follower of Fashion 1980, and in an installation in Hamilton's A Host of Angels exhibition. This installation included two other annunciation pieces: An annunciation (a) 1994–2004, a photo-painting version of The annunciation print, and An annunciation (b) 2005–6, a photo/ink-jet/painting hybrid featuring a composition identical to the larger annunciation, without the surrounding gallery architecture.
- 13. This detail, if nothing else, suggests that the figure is indeed the Virgin and not the 'nude angel' messenger that Hamilton alternately posits (and who does appear, shadowless, in The Passage of the Angel to the Virgin). The shadow here symbolises a corporeality that connects the Virgin to the mortal world. Likewise, Fra Angelico's Virgin casts a shadow where the Angel Gabriel does not, which Hood attributes to the painter's desire to represent him as the disembodied spirit that he is. Hood 1993, p.264.
- 14. From 'Introduction (1984)' in E. Lullin, Richard Hamilton, Prints and Multiples 1939–2002, New Haven 2003, p.272.
- 15. R. Field, 'Hamilton', Print Quarterly, vol.22, 2005, p.351.
- 16. Hamilton, Painting by Numbers, p.7. The other five participants in the David Goldsmith-directed documentary were Howard Hodgkin, Jennifer Bartlett, Larry Rivers, Sidney Nolan and David Hockney.
- 17. Documenta X: Short Guide/ Kurztührer, Ostfildern-Ruit 1997, p.88.
- 18. Hamilton, Painting by Numbers, p.5.
- 19. Ibid.
- 20. From 'The Hard Copy Problem', Lullin 2003, p.279.
- 21. R. Hamilton, Collected Words 1953–1982, London and New York 1982, p.64.
- 22. Hamilton has, notably, had a hand in the creation of 'sets' far less abstract than the one I am positing in The annunciation. In A Host of Angels he created a physical elaboration of the content of the painting titled Hotel du Rhone 2005, setting up a rug of the same pattern and other props within the gallery. The latter is not the first instance of spatial theatricality; the very work that Hotel du Rhone both references and contains within it (as a painting hung on the depicted wall), Lobby 1985–7, was similarly installed, replete with green dotted carpet and mirrored columns, in a 1988 exhibition.
- 23. Hamilton, Collected Words, 1982, p.61.
- 24. Hamilton, Painting by Numbers, p.53.
- 25. R. Hamilton and A. Vettese, Richard Hamilton: A Host of Angels, Venice 2007.
- 26. Fra Angelico's composition's unusual open architecture was a response to the actual architecture of San Marco, redesigned by Michelozzo c.1438. The fresco was positioned so that anyone entering from the stairs opposite would immediately confront the holy space of the painting. An east-facing window admitted light to the left of the fresco. There is reason to believe that Fra Angelico knew the perspectival system codified by Alberti in De pictura (1435–6), given the rigorous mathematical system that underlies the fresco's construction, yet the painting relies as much on fictive and local space as it does on mathematics. See Hood 1993, pp.264–8.
- 27. Hood reminds us that current viewing conditions of the Annunciation fresco bear little resemblance to those Fra Angelico would have experienced or reacted to. The painting would have been observed in low light, which would heighten, and make more poignant the painted light streaming from left to right in the fresco. (Hood 1993, p.262.)
- 28. Field, 'Hamilton', p.351.
- 29. In a review of A Host of Angels in which the author, Michael Bracewell, questioned the artist on the perceived prevalence of religion, Hamilton stated blithely: 'From my point of view, there is no religious aspect to it at all. If I thought these would be seen in that light, then I would think it unfortunate. I have no religious interests whatsoever.' M. Bracewell, 'Richard Hamilton: I don't have to care what people think!' ArtReview, number 13, July–August 2007.
- 30. Hamilton, Painting by Numbers, p. 5.
- 31. Ibid.
- 32. Hamilton discusses his involvement with photography at length in 'Notes on Photography', in Collected Words, pp.64–71.
I am indebted to Richard Hamilton for generously giving me his time and guidance, and for providing me with the images necessary for this piece. I am also very grateful to Richard Field for his valuable readership and feedback, and to Rita Donagh and Rod Hamilton for their help both in realising this text and in facilitating my work more generally. This article first appeared in Print Quarterly, vol.25, number 3, September 2008, pp.267–77.
Fanny Singer is a Ph.D candidate, History of Art, at the University of Cambridge, and is preparing a dissertation tracing the photographic thread in Richard Hamilton's prints.
Tate Papers Autumn 2010 © Fanny Singer


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