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BRANDT, BILL (1904-1983)
Avebury. Silver print, 9x7 3/4 inches (22.9x19.7 cm.), with Brandt's signature, title, and number, in ink, a date, in pencil, and a hand stamp, on verso. 1940
- Notes: Bill Brandt was born into a family with a predilection for the arts. After a brief apprenticeship with a Viennese studio photographer, Brandt went to Paris and was introduced to Surrealism by his short-term employer, Man Ray. In 1931, Brandt was back in England, focusing on photojournalism. He photographed his British compatriots showing the great divides of the class structure. He began using the flash and his prints became distinctively dark, grainy, and high in contrast. He photographed miners, the British landscape, and important artistic figures of the day with the same stark eye. In the mid-1940s, Brandt began to explore the nude using a wide-angle police camera. His early nudes were full-length studies with strong shadows, and the interiors dropping off and distorting in the background. Later on he abstracted body parts and landscape details, taking his models outside into the daylight.
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