Photography Exhibit Features Dryplate Tintype

A photographer whose penchant for alternative processes and manipulation technology will display her work at Amarillo College throughout much of the spring semester.

Brianna M. Burnetts contemporary-tintype display Re-told will comprise a visiting exhibit in the Southern Light Gallery on the first floor of Lynn Library on the Washington Street Campus. The exhibit will hang from Feb. 24 until April 3, when the Lubbock-area product is scheduled to give an Artist Talk.

Burnett holds a masters degree in photography from Texas Tech University. She will speak about the dryplate tintype process she uses to make images and construct one-of-a-kind photographs. Her lecture begins at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 3 on the second floor of the College Union Building, located directly north of Lynn Library.

Artist's Statement:

I use a dryplate tintype process to make images and construct one of a kind photographs using artifacts. I incorporate both digital manipulation, camera-less processes and historic photographic images to create photographic works. Although these are several different processes, each of the series has the continuity of story. The narrative is what holds me to making images. I delight in the visual reference of story or interpretation. These images are narratives from myth, folklore, history and memory and I am only continuing the tradition of telling and interpreting. These images are made for the act of re-telling. I interpret the stories and memories or adapt the narratives as an act of referencing time and collection. My photographs are a collection of moments remembered as the story unfolds.

They are always, simply stories re-told.

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For more information about Burnett's exhibition or appearance at AC, contact Rene West, AC instructor of photography, at 806-345-5654 or rwest@actx.edu.