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Bill Brandt

London, 1953

Description

Maker

  • Bill Brandt, 1904-1983, English

Title

London

Year

1953

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • pigment,
  • paper (fiber product)

Dimensions

Plate: 22.5 x 28.6 cm (8 7/8 x 11 1/4 inches)

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Photographs

Credit

Gift of Manny and Skippy Gerard

Object Number

2003.148.1

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Changing Poses

November 12, 2010 - June 6, 2011

The German-born photographer Bill Brandt created a series of photographic studies of nude women in the 1940s and ’50s, some on beaches and others, such as this, in large, relatively empty London apartment rooms. These images often have unusual cropping and disturbing bodily distortions, a result of Brandt’s experiments with a turn-of-the-century wooden Kodak camera that had a wide-angle lens and no viewfinder. In this picture, the viewer’s position is like that of a child, confronted by the exaggerated physical presence of the nude female body. Brandt photographed a variety of women, including professional models, friends, and relatives, though the images rarely offer clues to their identities.

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is London with the accession number of 2003.148.1. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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