London at Night

A very rare edition, originally printed in hardback and paperback. Bill Brandt constantly reminds us of how different London is from other great capitals. It is the glittering night of London that the camera of Bill Brandt sees. Floodlit attics and towers, oiled roadways shining like enamel under the street lights and headlights, the bright lacquer and shining metals of motorcars, illuminated signs, reflections of strong lamps on the river, searchlights, the bright dog racing arena.

Published 1938 Arts et Metiers Graphiques, Paris, Country Life, London, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 64 plates / 68 pages soft cove, introduction by James Bone and Andre Lejard. Also in hardback pub by Country Life.

Camera in London

Again a rare edtion. This is a book picturing London as only the Londoner knows it. Bill Brandt examines the minutiae of everyday life in London. Mixed with essays by Brandt on his technique. He tells us what attracts him in making photographs, how he finds his subjects, the effects he aims at and how he tries to achieve them. Not a photographer who has a single technical formula for his approach, Brandt does not set out to explain either the moods of London or his own moods, reflected here in his images of the great city. He merely hopes to share his views and vistas with others.

Published 1948 Focal Press, London. 59 plates/88 pages. Essays by Bill Brandt and text by Norah Wilson.

The English at Home

A classic view of British life between the wars summing up the elegance of the Ascot enclosure and the Regency houses in Mayfair and reflecting this against the misery of those caught in the poverty trap of the 1930s. A very entertaining look at ourselves as a nation These are photographs not of actors in realistic stage sets, but of people as they are, in their real inescapable surroundings.

Published 1936 B.T. Batsford, London. 63 plates/71 pages. Introduction by Raymond Mortimer.

Shadow of Light

The ever classic Bill Brandt book which embodies his work up to the late1960s. This book examines his mastery of a range of different photography from the early social pictures to his photographs of the London Blitz, his landscapes and then on to show his mastery of portraiture with marvellous pictures of Picasso, Man Ray, Dylan Thomas and the famous portrait of Francis Bacon. There is a strong showing of his nudes from Perspective of Nudes, published earlier which had a revolutionary influence on the attitude toward distortion in photography.

Published 1966 The Bodley Head, London and Viking Press, New York and revised by Gordon Fraser, London 1973. 163 plates/175 pages. Introduction by Cyril Connolly.

Perspective of Nudes (Bill Brandt Nudes 1945-80)

Although Bill Brandt is known for his photographs of London , his landscapes and his portraits of celebrities, this book published for the first time his nudes, a subject which obsessed him from 1945. Chronologically arranged, the photographs record the transition from an early romantic style to more classical themes, ending with the pure form of extreme close ups, taken on the beaches of East Sussex, the Mediterranean and Brittany.

Published by The Bodley Head, London and Amphoto, New York 1961 and revised edition by Gordon Fraser 1973 and New York Graphic as Nudes 1945-1980. 104 pages/90 plates. Preface by Lawrence Durrell and inroduction by Chapman Mortimer. Introduced by Michael Hiley in the GF edition.

London in the Thirties

A startling and intimate view of three different worlds within the city, seen through the lives of its inhabitants. In ninety six stunning pictures, Bill Brandt captures the tatooists, street wrestlers, and bar girls of East London, and the mood of its docks, doss houses and pawnshops. He wanders Islington, Notting Hill Gate and Regent's Park reflecting the lives of middle class Londoners. In Mayfair - a world where one set of people tends to another- Brandt spotlights the glaring contrasts between bejeweled and top hatted aristocrats, and the cooks, butlers and nannies who serve them.

Published by Pantheon Books, New York 1984. 98 pages/96 plates. Introduction by Mark Hayworth-Booth.

Bill Brandt: Behind the Camera

Brandt's achievement is traced against the backdrop of Europe and England in transition through the upheavals of the mid twentieth century.
Detailed introductions to every stage of Brandt's career are provided by Mark Hayworth-Booth. David Mellor offers an analysis of the elements that constitute Brandt's complex body of work. Cutitng through the genres into which Brandt's work is divided, David Mellor suggests the roots of Brandt's mystery. Through it all, the imagination of a great artist emerges.

Published by Aperture, New York and Phaidon, London 1985. 99 pages/75 plates. Introduction Mark Hayworth-Booth, analysis by David Mellor.

Photo Poche

Number 60 in a well known French series on photography, This pocket sized edition serves to provide great photography in a small format at a reasonable price.Published on the occasion of a Brandt retrospective exhibition in Paris in November 1994, the edition comes with some previously unpublished photographs.

Published by Centre Nationale de la Photographie in association with the French Ministry of Culture. 72 pages/100 plates.

Literary Britain

Bill Brandt spent more than a year travelling around Britain to take these hundred photographs of scenes, buildings and interiors associated with British writers of prose and verse especially for this book. Brandt's artistry lies in feeling as well as seeing with his camera; his skill captures in the photograph of a landscape, or the interior of a room, the spirit of the place as it was captured by a great writer of the past. The photographs are printed on the right hand page with the left hand page introducing a relevant quotation of the writer's work.

Published by Cassell & Co, London 1951 and by The Victoria & Albert Museum, London. 50 plates/111 pages. Introduction by John Hayward and Mark Hayworth-Booth in the latest edition.

Portraits

For more than 50 years, Brandt photographed many of the leading figures in the arts, creating powerful, memorable and often haunting images. Brandt preferred to photograph subjects in their own settings, drawing on the associations of a familiar environment. This book covers his range from the earliest portrait of Ezra Pound in 1928 to Man Ray and subsequent portraits of young poets, composers and artists.

Published by Gordon Fraser, London 1982, Univ of Texas Press, Austin USA. 50 plates/111 pages. Text by Alan Ross.

Bill Brandt: Photographs 1928-83

Ian Jeffrey deconstructs Brandt for the fis=rst time in this well researched and comprehensive bok detailing his career from the early 1920s. Piblished to coincide with a vast retrospective show at the Barbican Gallery in London in 1993

Published by Thames & Hudson, London 1993, 50 plates/111 pages. Text by Ian Jeffrey

Homes Fit For Heroes

Despite Bill Brandt's fame and considerable influence on the development of modern photography, the photographs in this book are a little known body of work carried out between 1939 and 1943 when Brandt was working on a commercial assignment for the Bournville Village Trust. The work has never been previously published. Introduction by Peter James.

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