Grant Hamilton

Back in the day when the Polaroid represented the most instantaneous means of photographic gratification, most people were using them to capture the moment when they pantsed their friend at their house party and then displayed it three minutes later for all of their fellow partygoers to marvel at. With the era of the digital camera destroying the novelty of immediacy, Grant Hamilton has found a better use for the progenitor of firsthand photographic amusement; using his prehistoric SX-70, the Polaroid prodigy turns this nearly extinct film fossil into the most relevant of artistic mediums with his collection of snapshots that tend to turn ordinary things into extraordinary images by focusing on lines and the separation of colors and textures making for pictures that are truly worth a thousand words.