Alexander Hamilton

The beauty of these images lies in the artist’s mastery of this early form of photography. Images are made without a camera and use a direct contact process. Early practitioners of the photographic arts, such as Fox Talbot, John Herschel and Anna Atkins made images, using plants or other materials to create prints.

The artist Alexander Hamilton works only with plants, each flower creating a single, unique image through the direct contact process. The plant leaves a trace on the surface of the paper resulting in a cyanotype that cannot be replicated. Between 1989 and 1999, after twenty-five years of research, he perfected these beautiful cyanotypes using this early photographic process. In the process he rejected, many images, to select only the perfect cyanotype. This remarkable collection of unique cyanotypes is now being made available for sale.