Bill Brandt

[jtk]

hi maris
thanks for the background on him and his work
I was wondering as i watched the video and did my best
to hear and understand his soft voice what his story was.
You are right about TB, he's lucky he survived !
Its extremely contagious and they didn't call it "consumption" for nothing !
Near where I live there was a vampire scare in the 1800s when a lot of people were dying of consumption...
In the "21st century 1st world" we don't really understand how not too long ago someone could
scrape their leg in the woods and die of an infection ( and how it still happens today in some places)
and how "germ theory" is basically a new concept.

Clearly, neither Maris nor jnantz understand that an exhibit of Brandt's original work, to be seen today (just as in the Seventies), properly includes work the artist did on prints to obtain, IN REPRODUCTION, the look he pursued, and for which he is appreciated today.

Lacking Photoshop, heavy retouching was the only way Brandt had to produce that look with the Francis Bacon negative (tho Brandt got what he wanted by selective print bleaching and other obvious retouching throughout his career with many other portraits).

Viewing originals like Brandt's Francis Bacon portrait should be enlightening to people who know his work only from reproduction.

Hanging that Francis Bacon portrait is a brilliant (and brave) way to show viewers some of what Bacon had to do to get the look he wanted. The curator deserves credit.

BECAUSE that image exists as an original only as a heavily retouched print, it will never satisfy the fussy Brett Weston standards that are so popular with tourists and photo magazines because it wasn't intended and doesn't exist that way.

The the distinctive and beautiful work done throughout the long career of a brilliant and distinctive photographer deserves credit, not ignorant gossip, denunciation and distraction.

That "germ theory" was "basically a new concept" is a bizarre attempt at distraction...the Bacon portrait was hung in Queensland more than 70 years into the 20th Century (qualifies as "modern times"), was hung in Southern California and in my home town several ye

 

[jtk]

Here's another Brandt link that appears to refute the health gossip that's been perpetrated.

http://iphf.org/inductees/bill-brandt/

 

[removed account4]

Here's another Brandt link that appears to refute the health gossip that's been perpetrated

You are kind of funny.
Maybe it was an oversight, but as usual, Maris knows what he is talking about, maybe you should learn a little bit about Bill Brandt and his stay in Davos Switzerland ....

"Born in Hamburg, Germany, son of a British father and German mother, Brandt grew up during World War I, during which his father, who had lived in Germany since the age of five, was interned for six months by the Germans as a British citizen.[1]:21 Brandt later disowned his German heritage and would claim he was born in South London.[2] Shortly after the war, he contracted tuberculosis and spent much of his youth in a sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland.[3] He traveled to Vienna to undertake a course of treatment by psychoanalysis. He was, in any case, pronounced cured and was taken under the wing of socialite Eugenie Schwarzwald. When Ezra Pound visited the Schwarzwald residence, Brandt made his portrait. In appreciation, Pound allegedly offered Brandt an introduction to Man Ray, whose Paris studio and darkroom Brandt would access in 1930."

Bill Brandt.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 6 Dec. 2018, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Brandt.

and taken from the link YOU provided ... ( to refute Maris ? )

"Brandt was one of four boys; he was born in Hamburg Germany on May 3, 1904. In 1920 Brandt contracted tuberculosis and spent the next six years in a hospital in Davos."

“Bill Brandt.” International Photography Hall of Fame, iphf.org/inductees/bill-brandt/.