Bill Brandt

a new perspective

Brandt nudes

Perspective of Nudes

This retrospective review covers every aspect of Brandt's art : many celebrated images are included, but others have never been published before. Four invaluable factual appendices complete what has been acclaimed as the standard work on this most brilliant and enigmantic of British photographers.

Photographs, 1928-1983

Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light is the first full-scale examination of Brandt's oeuvre that attempts to trace a coherent trajectory across the photographers multifaceted career. With 162 rich duotone reproductions made from the finest of the photographers vintage prints, this book seeks to lay out Brandt's career in all its unruly splendour, as Sarah Hermanson Meister writes in her introductory essay. Meister's fresh scholarship and keen attention to the chronological developments of Brandt's career including, for the first time, an analysis of the dramatic evolution of Brandt's printing techniques shed new light on an artist long considered an enigma by art historians. A comprehensive survey of the work Brandt published during World War II in a number of popular illustrated magazines reveals the origins of some of his most remarkable postwar work, while a technical examination of the photographers often painstaking retouching techniques, accompanied by detailed illustrations, offers an intimate behind-the-scenes look at the process that was critical to the ultimate impact of Brandt's extraordinary photographs.

Photographs

Shadow of Light

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Herbert Spencer

Hayward Gallery

Bill Brandt: Photographs

Yale Center for British Art

A Retrospective

Bill Brandt, Early Photographs, 1930-1942

Selected Texts and Bibliography

Nudes, 1945-1980

Nigel Warburton

Bill Jay

A comprehensive study of the work of photographer Bill Brandt, and a catalogue to an exhibition at the Barbican Centre in London. Brandt's work falls across a number of categories. He created odd, surrealist compositions, stemming from his early work in Man Ray's Paris studio, as well as telling images conveying social comment on Britain in the 1930s. His intensely dark portrayals of London and the industrial towns of northern England contrast with his softer, even lyrical evocations of landscape. He is perhaps best known for his sequence of ever more abstracted studies of the nude, but his telling portrayals of artists from the same period remain immediate and perceptive decades later. This book explores, on a large scale, all the different aspects of Brandt's work.

The Photography of Bill Brandt

Brandt

Gathers black-and-white portraits of actors, poets, musicians, philosophers, and artists and includes a discussion of the photographer's style

Portraits

Bill Brandt

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