Bill Brandt

Silver print, printed no later than 1976, flush-mounted to card. Signed, dated and dedicated 'to Arnold Newman' in black felt tip pen on the card. Dated 1952 in black felt tip pen on the reverse of the card.

The Photography of Bill Brandt, London, Thames and Hudson, 1999, cover; 
Bill Brandt, Bill Brandt: Shadow of Light, New York, 1977, ill. pl. 79

This print is in overall good condition. With a light crease running through the upper half of the print and two areas of cracking in the lower quadrants, only visible in raking light. With very small areas of retouching throughout the print and a small handling mark in the upper left quadrant.
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Brandt published his Perspective of Nudes in 1961, the culmination of years of work photographing the female nude in various settings. The location of this photography is something he considered important, as there is often a sense that the setting and figure echo one another, an idea particularly prevalent in his nudes on beaches. But what is most evident in these photographs is Brandt’s experimentation with perception and light. He used a wide-angle lens to great effect, distorting parts of the body through unusual angles and perspectives. Greatly influenced by the cinematography of Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941), there appears to be a very cinematic atmosphere to his studies of nudes.