Shadow of light : photographs / by Bill Brandt ; introductions by Cyril Connolly and Mark Haworth-Booth.

Main entry:

Brandt, Bill, photographer.

Title & Author:

Shadow of light : photographs / by Bill Brandt ; introductions by Cyril Connolly and Mark Haworth-Booth.

Edition:

1st American ed.

Publication:

New York : Da Capo Press, 1977.

Description:

24 pages, 82 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 10).
London in the 1930s -- Northern towns during the Depression of the 1930s -- Blackout nights of the London Blitz -- Interlude -- Portraits -- Landscapes -- Nudes.

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 photographer's multifaceted career. With 162 rich duotone reproductions made from the finest of the photographer's 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.

ISBN:

0306708582
9780306708589
0306800667 (pbk.)
9780306800665 (pbk.)

Subject:

Brandt, Bill.
Photography, Artistic.
Photographie artistique.
art photography.
Fotografos Ingleses.

Added entries:

Connolly, Cyril, 1903-1974, writer of introduction.
Haworth-Booth, Mark, writer of introduction.
Meister, Sarah Hermanson, writer of added commentary.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 37644
Call No.: ID PO2141; ID:88-B8588
Status: Available

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