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21:46 Shadow and Light invade the MoMA by Bill Brandt | |
Bill Brandt is a founding figure in photography’s modernist
traditions, and this exhibition represents a major critical reevaluation
of his heralded career. Brandt’s distinctive vision—his ability to
present the mundane world as fresh and strange—emerged in London in the
1930s, and drew from his time in the Paris studio of Man Ray. His visual
explorations of the society, landscape, and literature of England are
indispensable to any understanding of photographic history and,
arguably, to our understanding of life in Britain during the middle of
the 20th century. Brandt’s activity during the Second World War—long distilled by
Brandt and others to a handful of now-iconic pictures of moonlit London
during the Blackout and improvised shelters during the Blitz—are
presented here for the first time in the context of his assignments for
the leading illustrated magazines of his day, establishing a key link
between his pre- and postwar work. Brandt’s crowning artistic
achievement—developed primarily between 1945 and 1961—is a series of
nudes that are both personal and universal, sensual and strange,
collectively exemplifying the "sense of wonder” that is paramount in
Brandt’s photographs. Brandt’s work is unpredictable not only in the
range of his subjects but also in his printing style, which varied
widely throughout his career.   Press/image The Museum of Modern Art
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