Brandt bill eig hermann wilhelm (2 risultati)

4° (23,5 x 18,5 cm.). 8 p. and 63 plates in Heliogravure. Publisher's illustrated hardcover. Auer 230. Koetzle 67 f. Parr/Badger I, 138. Roth, The Book of 101 Books 90. Roth, The Open Book 122 f. - First edition of the first book published by B. Brandt. - "This was Bill Brandt's first book. At the time he was a 32-year-old freelancer, social documentary photographer working for Weekly Illustrated and Picture Post in London, but he'd already been to Paris to work with Man Ray. Compared with the works Brandt later produce and the ones he would later inspire in Robert Frank and others, The English at Home seems tame, but it dit have a lasting effect" (A. Roth). - "From start to finish, Brandt's career as a photographer was the most convoluted and unusual in the entire history of 20th-century photography. During the 1930s, he worked as a documentary photographer exploring traditional British subjects, before emerging as Britain's leading landscape and portrait photographer during and after the Second World War. He was eventually recognised as an artist and as Britain's most significant modernist photographer" (Ian Jeffrey in Koetzle). - Joints and edges slightly rubbed, contemporary dedication on the title page, a good, clean copy.…

4°. 14 S., [2] Bl. u. 90 Tafeln in Kupfertiefdruck. Orig.-Leinenband mit illustr. Schutzumschlag. Auer 408. Bertolotti 150 f. Koetzle 67 f. The Open Book 160. Parr/Badger I, 216. Roth, The Book of 101 Books 160 f. - Erste französische Ausgabe des Klassikers der Aktfotografie, erschien zeitgleich mit den englischen und amerikanischen Ausgaben. - "The best example of the relationship that had now been established between art and eroticisim is Persctive of Nudes (1961) by the English photographer Bill Brandt. In the first part of the work, images of female nudes taken in the 1940s are shown in stifling Victorian interiors; they evoke the language of the cinema of the time, as well as the Surrealist aesthetic. . By contrast, the series of photographs tken in the 1950s for the second part . suggests the contemporary artistic experiments of Jean Arp and Henry Moore. This series revolutionizes the language of photography, and creates something absoletely new" (A. Bertolotti). - "Mortimer, whose writing here is crisp and clever, notes their formal inspiration in Henry Moore and Jean Arp, and points to Matisse and Picasso for models of voluptuous abstraction. But in the endcomparisons fail to convey Brandt's utter originality. "Very rarely are we able to free our minds of thoughts and emotions and just see for simple pleasure of seeing," he wrote in the introduction to his book 'Camera in London'. Brandt knew that freedom, and fully explored it here" (V. Aletti in Roth). - Schutzumschlag am Kapital mit kl. Einriß (mit Filmoplast überklebt), Exlibris, sehr gutes sauberes Exemplar. - First French edition of the classic of nude photography, published at the same time as the English and American editions. - Dust jacket with small tear at spine (pasted over with filmoplast), bookplate, very good clean copy.…