BILL BRANDT – PERSPECTIVE OF NUDES
2021-04-05Bill Brandt first gained recognition as a photojournalist in the 1930s and 1940s, capturing images of all levels of British society for magazines like Lilliput, Picture Post, and Harper’s Bazaar. After turning his focus to nude photography for over a decade, he published his milestone photo book Perspective of Nudes (1961), and in 1969 he was the subject of a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which traveled internationally. Brandt’s first exhibition at Marlborough New York in 1976 was a critical turning point in situating his work within the context of fine art.
Initially influenced by the work of Man Ray, Brandt’s earliest experiments with nude photography took place in Paris before the Second World War. But it wasn’t until his return to the genre in 1944, while back in England, that his explorations into the body’s sculptural potential within the two-dimensional space of the photographic print spurred a painstaking, long-term study, largely unencumbered by idealized classical conventions.
Opposite – Nude, London, March 1952
Exhibition runs through to May 8th, 2021
Marlborough New York
545 West 25th Street, 2nd floor
New York
NY 10001
