{"title":"CONTACT STATES","description":"\u003cp\u003eCONTACT STATES\u003cbr\u003eSequential works recorded through analogue contact\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese works return to the contact sheet not as an editorial tool, but as a finished photographic object.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProduced directly from sequential exposures made onto medium format film, each work records the unfolding of a constructed optical event through time. Rather than isolating a singular image, the full sequence is retained, allowing variation, interruption, failed states and transitional moments to remain visible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eButterfly specimens suspended within controlled liquid conditions become subjects only in the loosest sense. The works are concerned less with representation than with observation: recording the behaviour of light as it passes through unstable physical conditions and resolving those conditions directly onto film.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe contact sheet preserves this process intact.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat would traditionally remain hidden in the studio remains present within the final work. Shifts in surface tension, minute movement, changing reflections and variations in optical compression accumulate frame by frame until the sequence itself becomes form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese works were not conceived as contact sheets at the moment of exposure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTheir final form emerged only through returning to the original negatives years later and recognising that selection itself obscured something essential: that the movement between images carried equal weight to the images themselves.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe delay was not incidental.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat first appeared as documentation gradually revealed itself as resolution. Distance allowed the sequence to separate from the conditions of its making and become visible as a work in itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is not retrospective curation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is a form of slow recognition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSome works revealed themselves immediately upon return. Others required repeated viewing before their structure became apparent. In each case, the interval between exposure and realisation proved essential to understanding what had been recorded.\u003cbr\u003eThe contact sheet therefore operates simultaneously as record and resolution.\u003cbr\u003eEach work is realised as a unique photographic object.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNo frames are reordered. No unsuccessful exposures are removed. Blank intervals, partial forms and moments of collapse remain part of the record.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe image is not selected from the sequence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sequence is the image.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"contact-states-ii-0070-0084","title":"Contact States VI  —  Film 070-084","description":"\u003cp\u003e2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003efrom the ´Transparency of a dream´ \u003cbr\u003e2013  \u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e—  \u003c\/span\u003e2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe image is not selected from the sequence.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe sequence is the image.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003ca rel=\"noopener\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\" href=\"https:\/\/alexanderjameshamilton.com\/pages\/contact-states\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eread 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