Bill Brandt
Man sleeping in a coffin - East End Crypt Shelter, 1940
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print
19.7 x 24.1 cms
7 12/16 x 9 7/16 ins
Series: 4. Britain at War
11491
Provenance
The Estate of Bill BrandtEdwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Exhibitions
Bill Brandt / Henry Moore, The Hepworth Wakefield (7 February - 31 May 2020). The exhibition will tour to Yale Center for British Art, USA (June 25-September 13, 2020) and Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art, Norwich (November 22, 2020-February 28, 2021). (This print)Literature
Martina Droth and Paul Messier (eds.), Bill Brandt / Henry Moore, Yale University Press, 2020 (This print)Paul Delaney, Bill Brandt. A Life, 2004 (variant crop illustrated full page p.162, titled Asleep in a Sacrophagus, Christ Church, Spitalfields, 1940
Bill Jay and Nigel Warburton, Brandt: The Photography of Bill Brandt, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1999 (variant vertical crop illustrated p.134)
Mark Haworth-Booth (intro.) and David Mellor (essay), Bill Brandt. Behind the Camera. Photographs 1928-1983, Aperture/Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1985 (variant crop illustrated p.36)
Bill Brandt. Shadow of Light. A Collection of Photographs from 1931 to the Present, with an introduction by Cyril Connolly and notes by Marjorie Beckett, 1966 (illustrated p.58)
Titled and dated, in pencil, on verso. Photographer's 'Photo Bill Brandt' stamp on verso. Autumn 1940 A vertical version of this photograph, focused on the man in a coffin is...
Titled and dated, in pencil, on verso.
Photographer's "Photo Bill Brandt" stamp on verso.
Autumn 1940
A vertical version of this photograph, focused on the man in a coffin is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Copyright The Bill Brandt Archive, London / Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York / Zürich. 2018
British Photography / The Hyman Collection
Photographer's "Photo Bill Brandt" stamp on verso.
Autumn 1940
A vertical version of this photograph, focused on the man in a coffin is in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Copyright The Bill Brandt Archive, London / Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York / Zürich. 2018
British Photography / The Hyman Collection