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Record price for a Bill Brandt Photography Week got a spectacular start at Sotheby’s on 9th April. Of 68 rare images in auction from the Quillan collecion, no fewer than 19 auction records were set including records for Weston, Strand, August Sander, Hans Bellmer, Bill Brandt, and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Brandt hit a new auction best with a price of $365,000 for his 'Van Gogh's Room in the Asylum of St.Paul-de-Mausole'.
"Impressed by Light: British Photographs From Paper Negatives, 1840-60" Organized by British art historian Roger Taylor, along with Sarah Greenough of the National Gallery and Malcolm Daniel of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the show's first stop, earlier this year), the history examines photography in the context of Victorian science, industry and colonialism.
FOTOFEST2008 IN HOUSTON - March 7 -April 20 2008 Taking place in all the Houston art museums as well as an incredible 107 other spaces, "Fotofest2008" features ten shows focusing on China photography and another 135 exhibitions in all. The lineup includes shows of Nan Goldin and Bill Brandt at the Museum of Fine Arts, "Vivid Vernacular" at the Menil Collection, and Dawoud Bey at the Contemporary Art Museum. For a complete list, see www.fotofest.org
Brandt's Albuquerque show - March 28th 2008 Having seen a comprehensive exhibition of his prints not so long ago, I can say to see the real thing is truly inspiring stuff. Of course some people think he couldn't print, and advocates of the zone system may be disappointed, but if passion, commitment and poetry is what appeals to you, it's there in abundance." - subscriber to APUG forum
John Swannell's best shot Inspirations: "Penn and Avedon. Bailey was always quoting them. Then I discovered Bill Brandt, and Horst, who always used to make women look elegant."
No Such Thing As Society: Photography in Britain 1967-87 It was a time of extraordinary changes. Jon Savage of The Guardian on a photography show that captures 20 turbulent years of British life The images tell of the human cost. The devastation they record recalls Bill Brandt's photographs of Britain in the 1930s, or the work of the crusading photojournalist WF Lestrange in the same period. Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales, until April 27 2008
British Shakepearean actor Paul Scofield dies aged 86
Paul Scofield, one of the best Shakespearean actors of his generation and an intensely private man who shunned the limelight off the stage, has died.
Brandt in Cornwall Tristan’s Gallery is located in Wadebridge near the beautiful North Cornwall coast. Cornwall, with a long history of art takes another step forwards by being home to one of the few fine art photographic galleries outside of London. Bill Brandt on show until 27th April.
Brandt in Houston It is part of the photographer´s job to see more intensely than most people do." To achieve the desired intensity, Brandt brought an unparalleled freshness of vision to his subjects over five decades. Bill Brandt on show until 28th April.
John Swannell at the NPG John Swannell - The walls of his corridors are covered with a valuable collection of prints he's amassed over the years: Bailey, Lartigue, Sarah Moon, Richard Avedon, Bill Brandt... However, he has recently sold his Helmut Newton print.
The Albuquerque Museum of Art & History Finally! Bill Brandt shows again in the USA. Brandt's endless search for ways to expand the medium continues to make his work fresh and timeless today. www.collectorsguide.com The Albuquerque Museum of Art & History , 2000 Mountain Road NW
Photo Espana 2008 With exhibitions run around the theme of 'place' the show this year will feature photographers Eugene Smith and Bill Brandt. The show is curated by Portuguese curator Sergio Mah.
Cantor Arts through April 6 2008 "Private and Public: Class, Personality, Politics, and Landscape in British Photography." The exhibition explores the "special qualities" of the British, including concepts of class, individuality, the city and the countryside. Works by Bill Brandt are part of the exhibition. Stanford Professor of History Peter Stansky calls Brandt "perhaps the greatest British photographer of the 20th century." During the 1930s, Brandt's photographs of social observation captured images of how the different classes lived. Later he created vivid images of London during the Second World War. Brandt also made portraits of English writers and artists and, later in his career, concentrated on near-abstract photographs of nudes.
Corkin Gallery - The Presence of Portraits A visit to "The Presence of Portraits" at the Corkin Gallery in the Distillery District – basically a Greatest Hits collection culled from the gallery's archives – goes a fair way to underscore the photographic portrait's ability to mythologize the most humdrum of working stiffs and to convey iconic status to images of the rich, powerful and famous.
The Gravure 'Prints' that aren't We have recently been made aware of a seller on Ebay purporting to sell 'original' gravure prints made by Bill Brandt and printed pre 1950. As far as we are aware there are no authorised editions of gravure prints by Bill Brandt. Any items that are purchased from this Ebay seller are simply sheets torn from an original edition of Shadow of Light, published in the 1960s. BEWARE
World's Greatest Photographs
The world's greatest photographs features two photographs by Bill Brandt in this weekend edition of The Sunday Times Magazine. He is the only photographer to have two photos printed! Virgin Atlantic likes Bill Brandt too! We have a cool full feature in this quarter's Lounge Magazine - free in the Virgin Atlantic Upper Class Lounge, so if you're travelling and you don't see it please ask for it.
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