Archival Pigment Portfolio

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Brandt was a regular visitor to Hampstead where he had many friends. This picture was taken with his acquisition of an old wooden box camera with a pinhole lens in a market shop in Soho. He experimented with the visual perspectives that this gave, both indoors and on the beaches of England and France.<br>Although we take this kind of visual perspective for granted now, at the time it was not common. Brandt was influenced to some extent by the film 'Citizen Kane' by Orson Welles, which showed both ceiling and floor of a film set for the first time
Hampstead 1952