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Bill Brandt : shadow and light /

By: Meister, Sarah Hermanson.
Contributor(s): Brandt, Bill | Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.).
Publisher: London : Thames & Hudson, 2013Description: 208 pages : illustrations, b&w plates ; 27 cm.Content type: text | still image | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780500544242; 9780500544242:; 0500544247.Subject(s): Brandt, Bill, 1904-1983 -- Exhibitions | Brandt, Bill -- Exhibitions | World War, 1939-1945 -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works | Photography, Artistic -- Exhibitions | Documentary photography -- Great Britain | Photography, ArtisticDDC classification: 779.092
Contents:
Shadow and light : the life and art of Bill Brandt / Sarah Hermanson Meister -- London in the thirties -- Northern England -- World War II -- Portraits -- Landscapes -- Nudes -- List of plates -- "No rules" : an illustrated glossary of Bill Brandt's retouching techniques / Lee Ann Daffner -- Bill Brandt's published photo-stories, 1939-1945 / Sarah Hermanson Meister and Marley Blue Lewis -- Selected exhibition history.
Summary: The first full-scale examination of Brandt's oeuvre, this volume attempts to trace a coherent trajectory across the photographer's multifaceted career. With 162 rich duotone reproductions made from the finest of the photographers vintage prints, this book seeks to lay out Brandt's career in all its unruly splendour, as Sarah Hermanson Meister writes in her introductory essay.
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Standard Loan Standard Loan ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection 779.092 MEI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0063731
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Published in conjunction with an exhibition held March 6-August 12, 2013, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Shadow and light : the life and art of Bill Brandt / Sarah Hermanson Meister -- London in the thirties -- Northern England -- World War II -- Portraits -- Landscapes -- Nudes -- List of plates -- "No rules" : an illustrated glossary of Bill Brandt's retouching techniques / Lee Ann Daffner -- Bill Brandt's published photo-stories, 1939-1945 / Sarah Hermanson Meister and Marley Blue Lewis -- Selected exhibition history.

The first full-scale examination of Brandt's oeuvre, this volume attempts to trace a coherent trajectory across the photographer's multifaceted career. With 162 rich duotone reproductions made from the finest of the photographers vintage prints, this book seeks to lay out Brandt's career in all its unruly splendour, as Sarah Hermanson Meister writes in her introductory essay.

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