Shadow of light : a collection of photographs from 1931 to the present / Billl Brandt ; with an introduction by Cyril Connolly and notes by Marjorie Beckett.

Main entry:

Brandt, Bill, photographer.

Title & Author:

Shadow of light : a collection of photographs from 1931 to the present / Billl Brandt ; with an introduction by Cyril Connolly and notes by Marjorie Beckett.

Publication:

New York : The Viking Press, 1966.
Lausanne : Héliographia S.A.

Description:

128 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), portraits ; 29 cm.

Series:

A Studio book

Notes:
1. London before the war -- 2. Northern towns during the depression of the 'thirties -- 3. Black-out nights of the London Blitz -- 4. Portraits -- 5. Landscapes and nudes.
Also issued online.

Summary:

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.

Subject:

Photography, Artistic.
Photographie artistique.
art photography.

Form/genre:

photobooks.
Photobooks.
Livres de photographies.

Added entries:

Connolly, Cyril, 1903-1974, writer of introduction.
Beckett, Marjorie, contributor.
Viking Press, publisher.
Héliographia (Firm), printer.
Studio book.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 19679
Call No.: ID:87-B6848
Status: Available

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