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London - August 2004 BRANDT NUDES The Bill Brandt Archive Announces the USA Launch of its Centenary Year Book - Text by Mark Hayworth-Booth of the V&A £ 295 Hardback ‘Britain’s favourite 20th century photographer’ To mark the 100th anniversary of Brandt’s birth, this definitive Limited Edition is meticulously printed using rare vintage prints and negatives from the Bill Brandt Archive. For the first time, Brandt’s most vibrant work of 140 classic and dramatic nudes, some previously unseen, is brought together in one ultimate collection. The new edition also coincides with a show of giant nudes to open in New York on November 4th 2004 at the Edwynn Houk Gallery. In the introduction to BRANDT NUDES: A New Perspective, Mark Haworth-Booth, curator at London's Victoria & Albert Museum, assesses Brandt’s most significant images and reveals important insights into his creative process: “No other British photographer has made so many memorable photographs as Bill Brandt. He excelled in all fields - social, Surrealism, night photography, documentary, landscape, portraiture and the nude.” Brandt’s nudes are also considered as his most innovative work. “In photography only Edward Weston has made nudes of equal power,” said John Szarkowski, Director Emeritus of MoMA’s Department of Photography. Dramatic use of the contrasting values of black and white, and exploration of optical deformations, cause the nudes to read as daring studies in abstractions, somewhat reminiscent of Henry Moore’s sculptures. Designed by award-winning David Pocknell, the edition represents the most luxurious book ever produced on Brandt. Each of only 1,000 copies is printed on very high quality American made paper and bound in linen cloth with a matching clamshell case. A special 100 copies exclusively available from the Archive, also contain an exquisite frameable platinum print hand crafted by 31 Studio. Bill Brandt (1904-83), a monumental and influential figure in British photography, considered his nudes as his favourite work and is acknowledged to have taken the genre into ground breaking new areas. In the 1950s, Brandt abandoned the studio to photograph on the pebbled beaches of East Sussex, Normandy and the Côte d’Azur creating abstractions in which the landscape of the body meets the landscape of the natural world.. In 1969 New York’s MoMA was the first museum to honor Brandt in the USA with a retrospective exhibition and in 2004, the Victoria & Albert Museum London presented a centenary retrospective exhibition of vintage prints, which is presently on worldwide tour. The Bill Brandt Archive in London, represents the Estate of Bill Brandt and maintains a collection of vintage and modern work for sale and exhibition. A media pack is available online. CONTACT FOR BOOK: John-Paul Kernot CONTACT FOR SHOW: Edwynn Houk |
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