Bill Brandt with his Kodak Wideangle camera

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Artist/Maker	Goehr, Laelia (photographer)
Place of origin	London (photographed)

Black and white photograph of the photographer Bill Brandt holding a camera in front of his face so that only the area from below his eyes up, and a portion of his left ear are visible. The camera is a large black square with numerous small metal fixings.

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Categories	Photographs Portraits
Object type	Photograph
Title	Bill Brandt with his Kodak Wideangle camera (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Gelatin-silver print Photographic Paper Gelatin Silver Process
Brief description	Photograph by Laelia Goehr, 'Bill Brandt with his Kodak Wideangle Camera', gelatin silver print, 1945
Physical description	Black and white photograph of the photographer Bill Brandt holding a camera in front of his face so that only the area from below his eyes up, and a portion of his left ear are visible. The camera is a large black square with numerous small metal fixings.
Dimensions	Height: 18.2cm Width: 15.2cm
Styles	Art Photography 20th Century Second Quarter
Production type	Unlimited edition
Gallery label	Bill Brandt with his Kodak Wide-Angle Camera 1945 Goehr learned photography from Bill Brandt, a leading British photographer of the 20th century. Here she photographed him posing with his newly-acquired Kodak Wide-Angle camera. Originally used by police to photograph crime scenes, Brandt experimented with the camera to produce his series Perspectives on Nudes, one of which is included in this display. Gelatin silver print Museum no. PH.67-1984(23/7/2016-5/3/2017)
Production	Reason For Production: Private
Subjects depicted	Camera Brandt, Bill
Bibliographic references	Mark Haworth-Booth, 'Bill Brandt Reading, London, 1945', History of Photography, 26:3, pp.222-223 ‘I have always liked the series of portraits of Brandt taken by Laelia Goehr. She had asked him to teach her photography…. a series of seven taken at Brandt’s flat in Hill-field Court, Belsize Park, North London, in 1945. She kindly gave the negatives to the Victoria and Albert Museum forty years later .’
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	PH.67-1984

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Record created	May 27, 2004
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O98772/bill-brandt-with-his-kodak-photograph-goehr-laelia/

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