"Nursery Girlhood" and "The Women" from The English at Home, c.1936

細節

BILL BRANDT
"Nursery Girlhood" and "The Women" from The English at Home, c.1936
2 gelatin silver prints
one with multiple credit and '58 Hillfield Court, Belsize Avenue, London, NW3' stamps, annotated 'The Women' and 'The English at Home' and notations in unknown hands in pencil on verso
each approx. 9¾ x 7¾in. (24.7 x 19.6cm.) (2)

來源

As in previous lot.

出版

M. Haworth-Booth & D. Mellor, Bill Brandt: Behind the Camera, New York, 1985, p.83.

注意事項

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拍品專文

Of "Nursery Girlhood" (illus.) David Mellor writes, "...they gaze at children's picture books, returning, as an inset (mis-en-abÿme), to Cherry Stones. 'Nursery Girlhood' reenacts and recalls the nursery as a specially invested imaginary site for Brandt. His photograph of a ringleted girl and her governess reading together was taken at one of his uncles' houses in Mayfair, with Brandt's niece acting the part of Alice. It was a piece of nursery theater, a family tableau. The photograph was placed in Brandt's wife Eva's album under the heading 'England, 1934'" (Bill Brandt, p.83.)