Main entry:

Delany, Paul.

Title & Author:

Bill Brandt : a life / Paul Delany.

Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 2004.

Description:

335 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Originally published by Jonathan Cape, London.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-321) and index.
Introduction -- Roots -- Something happened -- Davos: The iron key -- Vienna: The schwarzwaldkinder -- Becoming a photographer -- Eva -- Paris: With Man Ray -- Paris: The social fantastic -- Paris: The Hungarian table -- Wanderings -- In pursuit of the English -- The English at home: the ethnographer -- The English at home: the critic and the director -- A night in London -- Dirty thirties -- Becoming a photo-journalist -- Marjorie -- Blackouts and shelters -- The home front and picture post -- Portraits -- The land -- Deep focus -- The policeman's daughter -- The end of photo-journalism -- Farewell to Eva -- Perspective of nudes -- Private life -- Noya -- Paint it black -- Last years.

Summary:

"Bill Brandt, the greatest of British photographers, who visually defined the English identity in the mid-twentieth century, was an enigma. Indeed, despite his assertions to the contrary, he was not in fact English at all. His life, like much of his work, was an elaborate construction. England was his adopted homeland and the English were his chosen subject." "The England in which Brandt arrived in the Thirties was deeply polarized. He photographed both upstairs and downstairs, and recorded the industrial north as well as the society rounds of the affluent south. Although much of his work was for the new illustrated magazines, it was frequently influenced by surrealism and an eye for the slightly strange. The subjects of his portraits include the greatest creative figures of his age, and his English landscapes were sublime. His radical treatment of the female body forms a landmark in the history of the photography." "Paul Delany ambitiously traces the details of Brandt's life and reveals how the biographical facts and the fantasies that accompanied them deeply affected Brandt's work. The biography is richly illustrated with duotone reproductions of his masterpieces and a number of unpublished private photographs."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0804750033
9780804750035

Subject:

Brandt, Bill.
Photographers Great Britain Biography.
Photographes Grande-Bretagne Biographies.
Photographers.
Fotografi Storbritannien 1900-talet.
Fotokonst Storbritannien 1900-talet.
Fotografer Storbritannien 1900-talet biografi.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 236927
Call No.: BIB 166774
Status: Available