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Bill Brandt: Centenary Retrospective

Haworth-Booth, Mark (2004) Bill Brandt: Centenary Retrospective. [Show/Exhibition]

Type of Research: Show/Exhibition
Creators: Haworth-Booth, Mark
Description:

In 2004 the V & A led the celebration of the centenary of the birth of Bill Brandt, chiefly by hosting an exhibition and associated events. The exhibition had been originally curated by J.P. Kernot, director of the Bill Brandt Archive, London, and organised for circulation by Curatorial Assistance Incorporated in Pasadena.

Haworth-Booth’s role was to re-sequence the exhibition in a narrative more suited to a centenary, re-caption prints that had been incorrectly titled and dated, omit inferior prints, replace some prints with vintage prints from other collections, write introductory wall labels and texts for the exhibition’s six sections, and edit Brandt’s final television interview (1982) to serve an a preface to the exhibition. These interventions drew from an enquiry into Brandt begun in 1974. A further contribution to Brandt studies was made through recommending the donation of two Brandt albums containing 400 photographs (mainly by Brandt) to the national collection of the art of photography at the V & A, a recommendation that was accepted.

Finally, Haworth-Booth curated a display of these albums to compliment the Centenary Retrospective, organised a Brandt Centenary Symposium 01/05/04 at the V & A and wrote a new essay on the stylistic roots of Brandt’s series of nudes which were created 1945-60. This essay appeared in Brandt Nudes: a New Perspective edited by J. P. Kernot published by the Bill Brandt Archive, 2004 (ISBN 0954704800).

Other Contributors:
RoleName
CuratorKernot, J.P.
Your affiliations with UAL: Colleges > London College of Communication
Date: 24 March 2004
Related Publications: essay in Brandt Nudes: a New Perspective edited by J. P. Kernot published by the Bill Brandt Archive, 2004 (ISBN 0954704800), reprint of Haworth-Booth and David Mellor’s Bill Brandt: Behind the Camera. Photographs 1928-1983 by Aperture with the Philadelphia Museum of Art first issued in 1985.
Event Location: Photography Gallery, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
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Photography Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, U.K.
24 March 2004
25 July 2004
Date Deposited: 03 Dec 2009 22:30
Last Modified: 08 Feb 2013 17:41
Item ID: 1652
URI: https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/1652

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