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Artworks
Bill Brandt
Nude, Campden Hill, February 1954, 1954Vintage Gelatin Silver Print22.9 x 19.7 cms 9 1/16 x 7 12/16 insSeries: 8. Perspective of Nudes11140Provenance
The Estate of Bill Brandt
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New YorkExhibitions
Bill Brandt. Known and Unknown, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, 2001 (This print)Literature
Brandt Nudes. A New Perspective (with a commentary by Mark Haworth-Booth), 2004 (illustrated full page p.31)
Michael Hiley, Bill Brandt:Nudes 1945-80, Gordon Fraser, London, 1980 (illustrated full page pl.3)
Bill Brandt. Perspective of Nudes (with a preface by Lawrence Durrell and an introduction by Chapman Mortimer), 1961 (illustrated full page plate 16).
Brandt's nudes of the late 1940s tend to show the figure in a domestic setting. The use of a police camera led to distorted views that elongated the model's limbs...Brandt's nudes of the late 1940s tend to show the figure in a domestic setting. The use of a police camera led to distorted views that elongated the model's limbs and allowed an extraordinary depth of field.
Copyright The Bill Brandt Archive, London / Courtesy Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York / Zürich. 2018
British Photography / The Hyman Collection
