Altair Brandon-Salmon

Altair Brandon-Salmon is writing a dissertation on how bombsites in London shaped postwar British art and architecture. He is working with Professor Alexander Nemerov to explore history, memory, and mortality.

Brandon-Salmon has been the assistant curator at Campion Hall, University of Oxford, and a development consultant at Castle Blatna, Czech Republic. His writing has appeared in America, Art History, Commonweal, and Public Seminar. His fiction has been published by The Isis and the Oxford Review of Books.

His research has been supported by a 2023 Junior Fellowship at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art.

Lecture:

Hitler Asleep in the Mercedes, The Courtauld Institute of Art, 25 September 2023.

Selected Articles:

—‘Sign of the Times’, in Josie R. Johnson, ed., Reality Makes Them Dream: American Photography, 1929-1941 (Stanford, California: Cantor Arts Center, 2023), pp. 101-104.

—'The Back of Her Head: The Fashionable Wartime Ruins of Cecil Beaton', Art History, 45/4 (September 2022): 858-879.

—'Burning Cities', Public Seminar (27 July 2022).

—'The Radicalism of the Frick Madison', Public Seminar (13 September 2021).

—'Square Life', Oxford Review of Books, 5/2 (Spring 2021).

—'Capturing Obscurity', Oxford Review of Books, 5/1 (Autumn 2020).

—'London's Memorial Church Ruins', Commonweal, 146/13 (9 August 2019).

—'Martin D'Arcy and the Art of English Catholicism', America, 220/2 (21 January 2019).