A NAKED EYE - BILL BRANDT 'Britains Favourite 20th Century Photographer - defining the nude

BRANDT NUDES - A NEW PERSPECTIVE. To mark the 100th anniversary of Brandts birth, this definitive Limited Edition is meticulously printed using rare vintage prints and negatives from the Bill Brandt Archive. For the first time, Brandts most vibrant work of 140 classic and dramatic nudes, some previously unseen, is brought together in one ultimate collection. The new edition will also coincide with a show of Giant Nudes to open in New York on November 4th 2004 at the Edwynn Houk Gallery.

(PRWEB) September 7, 2004 -- In his introduction to BRANDT NUDES: A New Perspective, Mark Haworth-Booth, curator at London's Victoria & Albert Museum, assesses Brandts 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."

Brandts 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 MoMAs 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 Moores sculptures.

295 Hardback, cased

750 Hardback, cased with collector's print

(approx US $550 or $1,400)

160 pages, 142 duotone plates

11.1in x 13.5in / ISBN 0-9547048-0-0

Text by Mark Hayworth-Booth

Published by The Bill Brandt Archive

Available from The Bill Brandt Archive

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 is exclusively available from the Archive, containing an exquisite frameable platinum print hand crafted by platinum printer Paul Caffell at 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 dAzur creating abstractions in which the landscape of the body meets the landscape of the natural world..

In 1969 New Yorks 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.

Located in London, The Bill Brandt Archive 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.at www.billbrandt.com

CONTACT FOR BOOK: John-Paul Kernot

Toll Free USA 1-800 690-6865

Tel: +44 (0)20 7792 0132

Email, info@billbrandt.com

Website, www.bilbrandt.com

CONTACT FOR SHOW: Edwynn Houk

Tel: (212)-750-7070

745 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10151

Email, info@billbrandt.com

Website, www.houkgallery.com

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