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Bill Brandt Biography
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1904 |
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Born in Hamburg, Germany
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1927 |
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Travelled to Vienna, where he was taken up by Dr Eugenie Schwarzwald
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1930 |
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Assisted Man Ray in Paris for several months
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1934 |
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Settled, with wife, in Belsize park, north London
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1937 |
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Visited the industrial north of England for the first time
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1938 |
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'The Perfect Parlourmaid' appeared first in Verve magazine and then in Picture Post
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1938 |
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Brandt's second book, A Night in London, was published in London and Paris
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1983 |
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Died after a short illness
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2008
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Private and Public: Class, personality, Politics, and Landscape in British Photography, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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2008
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Photographs by Bill Brandt: A Sense of Wonder, MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
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2007
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Oog/Eye, Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam
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2007
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A Selection of Exceptional Vintage Photographs, Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL
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2007
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VIP, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT
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2006
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Busy Going Crazy, the Sylvio Perlstein Collection, La Maison Rouge, Paris
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2006
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Making History - Art and Documentary in Britain from 1929 to Now, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (England)
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2006
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Bill Brandt - A Retrospective, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
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2005
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Magritte Prive, BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts/ Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels
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2005
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De la comtesse De Castiglione a Cindy Sherman, Galerie de France, Paris
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2004
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Few Are Chosen: Street Photography and the Book, 1936-1966, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
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2004
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The Artist Observed - Portraits and Self-Portraits, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
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2003
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Flesh Tones - 100 Years of the Nude, Robert Mann Gallery, New York City, NY
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2003
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Looking at Photographs - 125 photographs from the Muesum of Modern Art, New York, The State Hermiatge Museum, St. Petersburg
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2003
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Bill Branft: A Retrospective, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT
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2002
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World War II: Vintage Photographs, Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA
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2002
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Der Akt in der Kunst des 20, Jahrhunderts, Kunsthallein Emden, Emden
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2001
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The Fine Art of Photography, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Ediburgh (Scotland)
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2001
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Known and Unknown, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
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1998
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In the Cold: Photography 1945 - 1965, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA
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| Links to further information |
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