Lot Essay
This camera, acquired by Brandt in 1945, was that used for his series of experimental nudes, started in the same year.
A whole-plate mahogany and brass camera with removable bellows and baseboard section with a Zeiss Protar f.18 8.5 cm. lens no. 1355381, a Zeiss protar f.18 11 cm. lens no. 938858 and eight double dark slides.
Details
KODAK WIDE-ANGLE CAMERA, originally belonging to BILL BRANDT
A whole-plate mahogany and brass camera with removable bellows and baseboard section with a Zeiss Protar f.18 8.5 cm. lens no. 1355381, a Zeiss protar f.18 11 cm. lens no. 938858 and eight double dark slides.
A whole-plate mahogany and brass camera with removable bellows and baseboard section with a Zeiss Protar f.18 8.5 cm. lens no. 1355381, a Zeiss protar f.18 11 cm. lens no. 938858 and eight double dark slides.
Literature
Haworth-Booth, Remembering Bill Brandt, V. & A. Album, No. 3, 1984, pp. 40 and 45.
Exhibited
Barbican Art Gallery, 'Bill Brandt Photographs 1928-1983', London, 1993.