Collins, Lefebvre & Stoneberger

Bill Brandt was one of the acknowledged masters of 20th century photography. Taken as a whole, his work constitutes one of the most varied and vivid social documents of Great Britain. Bill Brandt was largely self-taught in photography and worked as a student-assistant to Man Ray in Paris from 1929 to 1930. This exposure to Man Ray and his work would determine the surrealist undercurrent and tension of many of Brandt's images. Brandt's work was shown in numerous exhibitions throughout Europe and the US during his career including two one-person exhibitions at the MOMA in 1948 and in 1969. There are over a dozen published books of his work from the 1930s through the 1980s. Brandt's work was extensively collected by the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The National Portrait Gallery in London has 112 works by Bill Brandt in their collection.

"Brandt's pictures survive and enter the memory because they were constructed by an artist." -David Hockney

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2005	Retrospective: Fondation Henri, Cartier-Bresson, Paris Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris Abersytwyth Arts Centre, University of Wales Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen, Denmark
2004	Retrospective, The Victoria and Albert Museum, London The Nude: Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York Retrospective, The Royal Library, Copenhagen National Portrait Gallery, London
2003	Retrospective, Naples Art Museum Florida Nudes in Platinum, Focus Gallery, London Retrospective, Yale Center for British Art Brandt: 1970's prints, Focus Gallery, London
2002	National Portrait Gallery, Canberra, Australia Bill Brandt, a Retrospective, Milwaukee Art Museum Retrospective, Monash Galleries, Melbourne Australia
2001	Retrospective, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA Brandt: Seen & Unseen, Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York
2000	The Irving Galleries, Palm Beach, Florida
1999	Retrospective, International Centre of Photography, New York Retrospective, Barbican Art Gallery, London; Centre Nationale de la Photographie, Paris
1986	Behind the Camera: Aperture's Burden Gallery, New York
1983	Retrospective, International Center of Photography, New York London by Night: The Photographer's Gallery, London
1982	Photographs by Bill Brandt 1929-1975, The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1981	Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts National Centre of Photography, Bath, UK Marlborough Gallery, London Edwynn Houk Gallery, Chicago University of Kent Library, UK Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo
1980	Nudes, Petit Trianon de Bagatelle, Paris Early nudes, Galerie zur Stockerregg, Zurich
1979	Perspective of Nudes, Zeit Foto Salon, Tokyo Galerie Pule Pia, Antwerp, Belguim
1978	Moderna Museet, Stockholm
1976	Marlborough Fine Art, London Marlborough Gallery, New York Cronin Gallery, Houston Galerie du Chateau d'Eau, Toulouse, France Palais des Beaux Arts, Charleroi, Belguim
1975	The Hayward Gallery, London Musée Niecephore Niepce, Chalon-sur-Saone, France Photogalerie, Paris, France
1974	The Photographer's Gallery, London
1973	The Witkin Gallery, New York
1969	Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1948	Museum of Modern Art, New York
1938	Londres de Nuit, Galerie Chasseur d'Images, Paris

RECENT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007	How We Are: Photographing Britain, Tate Britain, London, Great Britain L'Eternel Féminin, Kowasa Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2006-2007	Eyewitness, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsinborg, Sweden Photographs by the Score: Personal Visions Twenty-Some Years Apart, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago busy going crazy - the Sylvio Perlstein collection, La Maison Rouge, Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France After Image : Social Documentary Photography in the 20th Century, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Sus ojos les delatan, Fundacion Foto Colectania, Barcelona, Spain Eurpoean Personal Journalism, Alan Klotz Gallery, New York, NY
2006	Senza di loro, nemmeno io. La collezione Pierre Borhan, Palazzo Magnani, Emilio, Italy My Collection, Museum di Fotografia Contemporanea Ken Damy, Brescia, Italy, Paris Making History: Art and Documentary in Britain from 1929 to Now, Tate Liverpool, Great Britain Sans regard - La collection Dancing Bear de W.M. Hunt, Musée de l'Elysée. Lausanne, Switzerland La trajectoire du regard, Salle d'exposition du quai Antoine 1er, Monaco, Monaco XX - Encontros de Fotografia, CAV Coimbra Visual Arts Centre, Coimbra, Portugal
2005	The Passion of the Private Collector, Huis Marseille Foundation for Photography, Amsterdam La Vie est belle, Galerie Agathe Gaillard, Paris Go Figure, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton Caza de luz. Colección Mário Teixeira da Silva, Fundación Foto Colectania, Barcelona Aspects of Architecture - Photographs from the V & A Collection and the Sheffield City Collection, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield, Great Britain
2004	Vintage Photographs, Artseal, San Francisco Relating to Photography, Fotografie Forum International, Frankfurt, Germany Recent acquisitions, Barry Singer Gallery, Petaluma, CA Variations on Spain, PhotoEspaña 2004, Centro Cultural de la Villa de Madrid La Collection Ordóñez Falcón - Une passion partagée, Le Botanique, Centre culturel de la Communauté Wallonie-Bruxelles, Belgium Fotografía e arte: Variacións en España 1900 - 1980, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, Vigo, Spain Il nudo nell'arte, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy A Clear Vision, Photographische Werke aus der Sammlung F.C. Gunlach, Internationales Haus der Photographie, Hamburg, Germany

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