Bill Brandt Monograph?

[Tom Nutter]

I am looking for either a well-produced monograph, or else an essay, in book form, about the work of Bill Brandt. Can anybody recommend a decent volume with a good cross-section of his career....that is maybe still available on the used book market at a reasonable price?

 

[pdeeh]

I have several, but I'm away from home and can't put my hands on them to give details.
There are one or two I'd specifically recommend, there's an Aperture monograph, but you also could look out for the one edited by Ian Jeffrey, 978-0500277263, "Bill Brandt: Photographs 1928-1983" (I can give the details on that one as I bought it online and still have the order to look at )

Good luck - Brandt is perhaps the finest English photographer of his generation (despite not being English, of course). If I actually have a photographic "hero", it's him. Everyone else can go hang.

 

[Tom Nutter]

Thank you Pdeeh!

 

[Michael W]

I own "Bill Brandt: Shadow & Light" pub by MOMA 2013. 208 pages with 162 tritone reproductions. There is an interesting section at the end by Lee Ann Daffner on his retouching techniques. Another section that reproduces all his magazine photo stories between 1939-45 showing the page layouts. There is also a substantial into essay by Sarah Hermanson Meister about his overall career. The photo printing is excellent and also a good selection of images that cover his career.

 

[Tom Nutter]

Thank you Michael! I will look into that one as well. Yes, I never really gave Brandt much thought for whatever reason, but I was watching an interview with Michael Kenna the other day, whose work is on my list of regular references, and he said Brandt was one of his big influences, so I decided I should look into it a bit. There is plenty of work online, but as we analog folks know, it isn't the same thing as looking at a show in a gallery or a well-produced book of someone's work.