GRAHAM BUDGETT: A BRIEF US HISTORY

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


Star Warrior

STAR WARRIOR [to give him his tribal name] was a shaman capable of simultaneously picturing past, present and future. So vivid was his vision that others also experienced his rapture. Myth and prophecy, through flashback and preview, became for his tribe real-time. Stars in his eyes became their navigational charts. This was his talent, the transubstantiation of base material into hard currency. His reliving of the past and projections to the future remain 'powerful medicine'.

_from the series: A Brief US History, 1985 [18 non-digital, single-frame, mu;tiple-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