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He wasn't interested in anything that didn't lend itself to mystery. The mystery was in Bill, and he projected it on whatever he photographed. - Sir Tom Hopkinson, Editor, Picture Post
The Aperture Foundation and Bill Brandt shared a very active relationship. In 1985, Aperture published the catalogue for the exhibition Bill Brandt: Behind the Camera, Photographs 1928-1983 presented by the Phildelphia Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum.
In many respects, Bill Brandt served as the anchor for creative documentary photography in Europe at the mid-century. His work and influence spans the decades just prior to and after World War II. From 1931 to the end of 1935, he produced the photographs published in the 1936 book The English at Home in which he captured a broad range of daily life in Britain. In 1938, A Night in London was introduced, presenting photographs of London's rituals in the night. Brandt's work was published broadly in London's picture magazines, Lilliput and Picture Post during the late 1930s and 1940s, including his images of wartime London. In 1948, Brandt produced his third book, Camera in London, a collection of work from the 30s and 40s. From 1945 to 1950, Brandt's vision turned to the British landscape and in 1951 many images from this project were combined with his portraits of contemporary writers in Literary Britain. It was after the declaration of peace in 1945 that Brandt began a fifteen year project, which would finally appear as ninety photographs in Perspective of Nudes.
The selection of Brandt's work offered here includes several examples from his most important essays. The prints offered clearly display Brandt's emphasis on photographs representing the social and cultural landscape.
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Sky Lightens over the Suburbs (c. 1933-37)
Gelatin silver print. circa 1950. Credit stamp on the verso; printed title on the exhibition overmat. 9 x 7¾in.
Sky Lightens over the Suburbs (c. 1933-37)
Gelatin silver print. circa 1950. Credit stamp on the verso; printed title on the exhibition overmat. 9 x 7¾in.
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Thames and Hudson, Bill Brandt, p. 130 (there titled Rainswept Roofs).
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