Mounted to board. Titled, in pencil, on verso. Photographer's 'Photo Bill Brandt' stamp on verso. Oversized vintage print. Paul Delaney in his biography of Brandt, Bill Brandt. A Life, writes...
Mounted to board. Titled, in pencil, on verso. Photographer's "Photo Bill Brandt" stamp on verso. Oversized vintage print.
Paul Delaney in his biography of Brandt, Bill Brandt. A Life, writes of this photograph: '"Bedroom in West Ham" carries the social message of overcrowding in the slums, but the massed sleeping figures point us towards a world of dreams that is a refuge from the sufferings of daylight.' p.139
Copyright The Bill Brandt Archive, London / Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York / Zürich. 2018
The Estate of Bill Brandt Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
Exhibitions
London Nights, Museum of London, London, 11 May - 11 November 2018 (This print) Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 6 March - 12 August 2013 (This print) Bill Brandt, Hayward Gallery, April 1970 (Another print)Brandt, MoMA, New York, 1969 (cat.21) (Another print)
Literature
Paul Delaney, Bill Brandt. A Life. DIscussed p.139 Sarah Hermanson Meister, Bill Brandt: Shadow & Light, (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2013), p. 59. (illustrated) Bill Brandt, London in the Thirties, 1983, pl.26 (illustrated full page) Bill Brandt, Shadow of Light, 1977 (illustrated p.28) Bill Brandt. A Night in London, 1938 (p.25 Illustrated full page and captioned "Whole families sleep in one room")