Bill Brandt
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"Top Withens, West Riding, Yorkshire", 1945
Signed Bill Brandt on the mount. Gelatin silver print glued to cardboard, image 34 x 29 cm. Cardboard 51 x 40.5 cm.
Literature
Bill Brandt, ”Shadow of Light”, 1977, illustrated on pl. 106.
Mark Haworth-Booth, ”Bill Brandt Behind the Camera: Photographs 1928-1983”, 1985, illustrated on p. 58.
Ian Jeffrey (ed.), ”Bill Brandt Photographs 1928-1983”, 1993, illustrated on p. 140.
Nigel Warburton, ”Bill Brandt; Selected texts and bibliography”, 1993, illustrated on p. 9.
Bill Jay and Nigel Warburton, ”The Photography of Bill Brandt”, 1999, illustrated on pl. 163.
Bill Brandt Archive, ”Brandt: Icons”, 2004, illustrated.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, ”Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light”, exhibition catalogue, 2013, illustrated on p. 140.
More information
This motif and several others by Bill Brandt is included in the collection of MoMa, New York, Minneapolis Institute of Art and Victoria & Albert Museum, London.
"Bill Brandt (1904-83) is the finest British photographer of modern times. He photographed with imagination, compassion and humour. His photographs show us the vivid interactions of social life and the realities of labour and class. He is a witness to the Depression of the 1930s and the Blitz of 1940. He revised and renewed the major artistic genres of portraiture, landscape and the nude.
Bill Brandt brought to the British scene a unique sensibility formed elsewhere, He saw Britain with the eyes of a continental European and a Surrealist.
His achievement is central to the development of photography as an artistic medium in Britain but he was also admired by great masters elsewhere - including Brassaï in Paris, Edward Steichen, Walker Evans and Robert Frank in New York, and Eikoh Hosoe in Tokyo."
Victoria & Albert Museum, London.