GRAHAM BUDGETT: A BRIEF US HISTORY

Pre-digital, in-camera, photo-textual montages, 1985


SATELLITE IMAGE

"SATELLITE IMAGE"- it says, but this is no image from a satellite. This is a photo of satellites [or things which have that image.]

* Satellite n. 1. Astron. a body that revolves around a planet; moon. 2. a person or thing that depends on, accompanies, or serves someone or something else. 3. a man-made device launched from the earth into orbit around a planet or sun.

_from the series: A Brief US History, 1985 [18 non-digital, single-exposure, performed photomontages]


A Brief US History

United Fruit Presents...

No-Choice - Abort

"'feel like I died and went to heaven!"

"The Ghost of 007"

My First Strike

Bikini

Star Warrior

Communications Corps

Body of El Salvador

The Happy Dissident

Contra Diction

Vision Over America

Satellite Image

Holiday Inn, Johannesburg

LA84

The Angel of History

A Brief US History

© Graham Budgett 1985