Biography
Born in Hamburg, Germany in 1904. Moved to London in
- Died in 1992.
Individual Exhibitions
1938 London By Night; Galerie Chasseur d’Images, Paris,
France
1948 Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
1963 George Eastman House, Rochester, New York
1969 Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, and
The Hayward Gallery, London, England, and traveling
1974 The Kinsman Morrison Gallery, London, England
1976 Marlborough Fine Art, London, England Marlbor-
ough Gallery, New York, New York
1979 Perspective of Nudes; Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo, Japan
Galerie Pule Pia, Antwerp, Belgium
1981 Retrospective; Royal Photographic Society, National
Center of Photography, Bath, England
Early Photographs; University of Kent Library, Kent,
England, and traveling
1982 Photographs by Bill Brandt 1929–1975; Art Gallery of
Ontario, Ontario, Canada
Bill Brandt: Portraits 1982; The National Portrait
Gallery, London, England
1983 Retrospective; International Center of Photography,
New York, New York
London by Night; The Photographers’ Gallery, Lon-
don, England
1984 De Beyerd Center, Breda, The Netherlands
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Literary Britain; Victoria and Albert Museum, Lon-
don, England
1986 Behind The Camera; Aperture’s Burden Gallery, New
York. New York
1994 Retrospective; Barbican Art Gallery, London, England
Centre nationale de la photographie, Paris, France
1999–2000Retrospective; International Center of Photogra-
phy, New York, New York
2001 Brandt: Seen & Unseen; Edwynn Houk Gallery, New
York, New York
Retrospective; Museum of Photographic Arts, San
Diego, California
Toppers & Cloth Caps; The Special Photographers
Gallery, Notting Hill Gate, London, England
2002 Retrospective; Monash Galleries, Melbourne, Austra-
lia, and National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia
2002–2003Bill Brandt: A Retrospective; Milwaukee Art
Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Yale Center for
British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
2004 Bill Brandt: A Centenary Retrospective; Victoria and
Albert Museum, London, EnglandFurther Reading
Brandt, Bill.The English at Home. Introduction by Ray-
mond Mortimer. London: Batsford, 1936.
———. A Night in London. Paris: Arts et me ́tiers Graphi-
ques; and New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1938.
———.Literary Britain. Hurtwood Press, 1984.
———.Perspective of Nudes. Preface by Lawrence Durrell.
Introduction by Chapman Mortimer. London: Bodley
Head, 1961.
———.Bill Brandt: Nudes 1945–1980. Introduction by
Michael Hiley. New York: The New York Graphic
Society/Little Brown and Company, 1980.
———.Photographs, by Bill Brandt. Introduction by Mark
Haworth-Booth. Washington, DC: International Exhi-
bitions Foundation, 1980.
———.Behind the Camera: Photographs by Bill Brandt.
Mark Haworth-Booth. New York: Aperture, 1985.
Brandt, Bill.London in the Thirties. Menston, England:
Scolar Press, 1998.
Brandt, Bill, and Mark Haworth-Booth.The Land: Twen-
tieth Century Landscape Photographs. Cambridge, MA:
Da Capo Press, 1976.
Delany, Paul.Bill Brandt: A Biography. Jonathan Cape,
2004.
Jay, Bill.Bill Brandt: Portraits. New York: Harry N.
Abrams, 1999.
Jay, Bill, and Nigel Warburton.Brandt: The Photography of
Bill Brandt. London: Thames and Hudson, 1999.
Jeffrey, Ian.Bill Brandt: Photographs, 1928–1983. London:
Thames and Hudson, 1994.
Ross, Alan.Portraits (Photography and Film). London:
Herbert Press, 1990.BRASSAI
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Hungarian-French
Brassaı ̈’s obsession with the diverse character of
social relationships, urban spaces, and the objects
and events that often go unnoticed in everyday ex-
perience prompted expatriate American novelist
Henry Miller to nickname him ‘‘The Eye of Paris.’’
Brassaı ̈pursued a style of immediacy and intimacy
to bridge the distances between subject matter,
artist, and viewer. His landscapes of nighttime
monuments and deserted streets and his portraits
of both the unknown as well as the most famous
artists and writers in mid-century Paris demonstrate
photography’s ability to bracket references to rea-BRANDT, BILL