The Anglo-German photographer's evocative 1955 portrait typifies the tension he created between person and place Bill Brandt's first book, The English at Home, published in 1936, exhibited a brilliant fascination not only with light and shade, but with the costumes of class divide - miners' caps and public school boaters, maids' pinnies and cricket whites. By the 1950s, however, his English interiors had tended to do away with clothing. His postwar series of nudes found ways of making flesh both...
The Anglo-German photographer's evocative 1955 portrait typifies the tension he created between person and place Bill Brandt's first book, The English at Home, published in 1936, exhibited a brilliant fascination not only with light and shade, but with the costumes of class divide - miners' caps and public school boaters, maids' pinnies and cricket whites. By the 1950s, however, his English interiors had tended to do away with clothing. His postwar series of nudes found ways of making flesh both...
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