Portrait of a London Child, Eaton Place, 1955

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BILL BRANDT (1904-1983)
Portrait of a London Child, Eaton Place, 1955
gelatin silver print
titled and dated in ink (verso)
photographer's credit stamp with '58 Hillfield Court' address (verso)
9¾ x 7 7/8 in. (24.8 x 20 cm.)

Literature

Hall (editor), Photography Year Book, Photography Magazine Ltd, 1956, p. 21;
Brandt, Shadow of Light, The Bodley Head, 1966, p. 76;
Delany, Bill Brandt -- A Life, Jonathan Cape, 2004, p. 245.

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Lot Essay

The subject of this study -- in which Brandt willfully exploits the characteristics of his wide-angle lens to create an eerie sense of dislocation and scale -- is his 10-year old niece Judith, daughter of his brother Rolf. Paul Delany observes how the deep focus turns Judith into 'an uncanny, Alice-like figure' and how, in such pictures, 'Brandt made rooms into equal partners in the human dramas that they enclose.' (opp. cit. p. 244)

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