Bill Brandt reading list

An introduction to Bill Brandt


Bill Brandt: behind the camera : photographs 1928-1983, with introductions by Mark Haworth-Booth and an essay by David Mellor. New York: Aperture and Oxford : Phaidon, 1985.

Bill Brandt: selected texts and bibliography, by Nigel Warburton. Oxford: Clio, 1993.

Bill Brandt: Literary Britain, revised edition with an afterword by Mark Haworth-Booth. London : Victoria and Albert Museum in association with Hurtwood Press, 1984 and New York: Aperture


More reading about Bill Brandt


Bill Brandt : photographs, 1928-1983, with text by Ian Jeffrey. London : Thames and Hudson, 1993

Bill Brandt, Camera in London. Introduction by Bill Brandt, commentary by Norah Wilson. (London and New York, Focal Press, 1948)

The Land : twentieth century landscape photographs selected by Bill Brandt. Edited and introduced by Mark Haworth-Booth. London : Gordon Fraser Gallery, 1975

Bill Brandt: the assemblages. Editors: Zelda Cheatle and Adam Lowe. Kyoto: ARM ; Kyoto Shoin, 1993

Bill Brandt: Nudes 1945-1980. Introduction by Michael Hiley. London: Gordon Fraser, 1980

Bill Brandt: Portraits. Introduction by Alan Ross. London: Gordon Fraser and Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982


Further reading - books and exhibition catalogues


Bill Brandt, The English at Home. Introduction by Raymond Mortimer. (London: Batsford, 1936)

Bill Brandt, A Night in London. Introduction by James Bone. (London: Country Life and Paris (as Londres de Nuit): Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1938)

Bill Brandt, Literary Britain. Introduction by John Hayward. (London: Cassell, 1951)

Bill Brandt, Perspective of Nudes. Introduction by Chapman Mortimer. (London: Bodley Head, 1961)

Bill Brandt, Shadow of Light. Introduction by Cyril Connolly. (London: Bodley Head, 1966)

Bill Brandt: Photographs. Introduction by Aaron Scharf. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1970)

Bill Brandt: Early Photographs, 1930-42. Essay by Peter Turner. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1979

Bill Brandt, Shadow of Light (2nd, edition, revised). Essays by Cyril Connolly and Mark Haworth-Booth. London: Gordon Fraser, 1977

Bill Brandt: A Retrospective Exhibition. Essay by David Mellor. Bath: Royal Photographic Society, 1981

Bill Brandt: London in the Thirties. London: Gordon Fraser, 1984

Bill Brandt: London in the Thirties. Introduction by Mark Haworth-Booth. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984

Bill Brandt: Essai. Text by Patrick Roegiers. Paris: Pierre Belfond, 1990

Bill Brandt. Introduction by Ian Jeffrey. Bibliography by Nigel Warburton. Paris: Photo Poche, 1994

Bill Brandt: The Photography of Bill Brandt. Foreword by David Hockney, texts by Bill Jay and Nigel Warburton. London: Thames & Hudson, 1999

Paul Delany, Bill Brandt: A Life. London: Jonathan Cape, 2004


Articles


Tom Hopkinson, ‘Bill Brandt’s Landscapes’, Photography (April 1954), pp.26-31

John Berger, 'Arts in Society: The Uses of Photography’, New Society (13 October 1966), pp. 582-83

Bill Jay, ‘Bill Brandt: The Best from Britain’, Creative Camera Owner (August 1967), pp.160-69, 184

John Szarkowski, ‘Bill Brandt’, Album (1970), pp.12-28

John Taylor, ‘Bill Brandt and the Conversation Piece’, Afterimage (January 1979), pp.4-5

John Taylor, ‘The Use and Abuse of Brandt’, Creative Camera (March-April 1981), pp.17-20

Mark Haworth-Booth, ‘Talking of Brandt…’, Creative Camera (March-April 1981), pp.20-22

Mark Haworth-Booth, ‘Kitaj/Brandt/Screenplay’, Creative Camera (June 1982), pp.546-49

Roméo Martinez, ‘Bill Brandt’ (in French) in Atelier Man Ray, 1920-35. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1982

Roy Strong, ‘Bill Brandt Portraits’, Creative Camera (June 1982), pp.538-45

Charles Hagen, ‘Bill Brandt’s Documentary Fiction’, Artforum (September 1985), pp.11-14

Mark Haworth-Booth, ‘Remembering Bill Brandt’, The V&A Album III, London: Associates of the V&A, 1984, pp.pp.40-45

Joanne Buggins, ‘An Appreciation of the Shelter Photographs taken by Bill Brandt in November 1940’, Imperial War Museum Review 1989, pp.32-42

Bill Jay, ‘Bill Brandt – A True but Fictional Encounter’, in Bill Jay’s Occam’s Razor (Munich: Nazraeli Press 1992), pp.263-76

Nigel Warburton, ‘Bill Brandt’s Cathedral Interiors’, History of Photography (Autumn 1993), pp.pp.263-76

Martin Gasser, ‘Bill Brandt in Switzerland and Austria: Shadows of Life’, History of Photography (Winter 1997), pp.303-13

Nigel Warburton, ‘Authentic Photographs’, The British Journal of Aesthetics 1998, pp.129-37

Mark Haworth-Booth, ‘Bill Brandt Reading by Laelia Goehr’, History of Photography (Autumn 2002), pp.222-23

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