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Bill Brandt: Quest Beyond Reality: The Complex Career of Britain's Foremost Photographer |
| Section: THE ARTS / PHOTOGRAPHY |
| Author: Darwin Marable |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1988 |
| Size: 2,329 Words, 14,236 Characters |
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Traditionally, British artists have excelled in the use of the word rather than the visual image. Bill Brandt, Britain's foremost twentieth-century photographer, is an exception. Before and during World War II, Brandt documented the various levels and facets of British life, mainly for periodicals such as Weekly Journal, Lilliput, and Picture Post. After the war, influenced by Surrealism and attracted to the mysterious, he began to create poetic images. Organized by the Alfred Stieglitz Center of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Bill Brandt: Behind the Camera, 1928-1983, is a major retrospective of his rarely exhibited vintage black-and-white photographs, which opened at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on June 15, 1985, and tours through next January.
Bill Brandt (1904-1983) was born i...
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...ved the photographer could use any means necessary to achieve the result and the work in the darkroom was just as important as the clicking of the shutter. The poet always seemed to be looking through a glass darkly and, even in his documents, sought "something beyond the real." Brandt felt that the photographer's job is to see life more intensely than the rest of us, and that is what he did.
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