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Indepth Arts News: "Bill Brandt : Over 50 Images by One of the Twentieth-Century’s Greatest Photographers" 2009-06-24 until 2009-07-18 Chris Beetles Gallery London, , UK United Kingdom
Brandt was a regular presence in the great photographic magazines of the time, particularly Picture Post and Lilliput, but also published numerous books including The English at Home (1936), A Night in London (1938), Literary Britain (1951) and Perspective of Nudes (1961). Often reduced to stark blacks and whites, his images can be as formally powerful as the subject matter they depict – and often retain the humour, even satire, of an outsider looking in.
Brandt is known for documenting Britain and its people – the rich and poor, the celebrated artist and the unknown miner – but also for his idiosyncratic nude studies that obsessed him from 1951. Our show will focus on these two great facets of Brandt’s work, and aims to firmly reinforce his position in the canon of great twentieth-century photographers.
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