Bill Brandt Archive

Limited Edition

• Edition size 400

• Editor: Roger Sears | Designer: David Pocknell

• Printers: Calff & Meischke | Binding: Hipwell

• Published: The Bill Brandt Archive Ltd.

• Paper: Monadnock (USA)

• Size: 285 x 350mm / 142 plates

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• Priced at £ 295
  
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The year 2004 marked the centenary of Bill Brandt, one of the foremost photographers of the 20th century. In celebration, the Victoria and Albert Museum held a major retrospective exhibition of Brandt's work.

This small gift book, Brandt Icons, is published by the Bill Brandt Archive as its own centenary tribute to the work of a great artist. Containing thirty of the most famous of Brandt's images, beautifully presented, this book will be the best possible way to be introduced to his work and enjoy and understand the artistry Brandt employed in every genre: photojournalism, the nude, landscape, the urban scene and the portrait. Each selected photograph is beautifully displayed and printed in this gem of a publication, a fitting tribute to a master photographer.

£18

A comprehensive study of the work of photographer Bill Brandt, and a catalogue to an exhibition at the Barbican Centre in London in 1993. 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.

£165