Bill Brandt
West Ham Bedroom (London), 1937
Vintage Gelatin Silver Print
29 x 24.3 cms
11 3/8 x 9 5/8 ins
11 3/8 x 9 5/8 ins
Series: 1. The English at Home
11137
Provenance
The Estate of Bill BrandtEdwynn 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.139Sarah 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")
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
British Photography / The Hyman Collection
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
British Photography / The Hyman Collection