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Bill Brandt

Exhibition: 3 Jun 2021 – 29 Aug 2021

Bill Brandt
Bill Brandt, Río Cuckmere, 1963, Private Collection. Courtesy of the Bill Brandt Archive and the Edwynn Houk Gallery.

An apprentice in Man Ray’s studio and influenced in his origins by artists such as Brassaï, André Kertész or Eugène Atget, Bill Brandt (Hamburg, 1904-London, 1983), one of the founders of modern photography, conceived the language of photography as a powerful means of contemplating and understanding reality, but always from a primacy of aesthetic considerations over documentary ones.