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Artworks
Bill Brandt
Twentieth Century Architecture, 1935Vintage Gelatin Silver Print20 x 24.4 cms 7 13/16 x 9 9/16 insSeries: 3. A Night in London11501Further images
Provenance
The Estate of Bill Brandt
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New YorkLiterature
Bill Brandt, The English at Home, 1936 (illustrated full page)Mounted vintage exhibition print. Titled, in pencil, on verso. Photographer's 'Photo Bill Brandt' stamp on verso. Only two prints known. This photograph of Battersea Power Station is the actual one...Mounted vintage exhibition print.
Titled, in pencil, on verso.
Photographer's "Photo Bill Brandt" stamp on verso.
Only two prints known.
This photograph of Battersea Power Station is the actual one reproduced in Brandt's first book, The English at Home (1936), with the title "Twentieth Century Architecture". An emblem of modernity, it followed a plate entitled "Twelfth Century Architecture". This view of the metropolis is anomalous in the book and is one of the most overtly modernist images Brandt ever produced.
Copyright The Bill Brandt Archive, London / Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York / Zürich. 2018
British Photography / The Hyman Collection
