Bill Brandt Nudes - a new photographic show of his famous nudes to open this week at the Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY

The Bill Brandt Archive has released its first collection of large scale carbon pigment prints to celebrate the British master photographers centenary year. The art world has become accustomed to his smaller prints that Brandt is known for but this is the first outsized edition and puts the work into a new perspective. The show opens at New York's Edwynn Houk Gallery 745 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10151 on 5th November and runs to January 8th 2005. The Opening reception is 6-8pm on November 4th

(PRWEB) October 31, 2004 -- Bill Brandt remains one of the most complex and respected photographers of the 20th century, his nudes now reaching iconic status. The striking images Brandt created are essential works. His innovations expanded the medium of photography and gave his work a timeless quality.

A numbered edition of twenty five prints carrying the estate stamp are produced by master printmaker David Adamson of Adamson Editions who has collaborated with some of todays most influential artists including Bruce Weber, William Wegman and Annie Leibovitz.

In his introduction to the recent 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.

Carbon was one of the earliest substances used to produce photographic prints. The first known image-forming use of carbon pigment was in the Paleolithic Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc cave in France some 30,000 years ago. More recently, the first photographic Carbon Print process was developed by Adolphe Poitevin in France in 1856.

An important aspect of the process is that it is an ink on paper medium, not a light-sensitive emulsion, and therefore is more akin to gravure than to silver or platinum prints. Carbon printing is still practiced today in various forms by those who revere a more permanent image.

Please contact us further for current availability, size and price.

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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