Brandt, Perspectives sur le Nu - 1961 - Erste französische Ausgabe

Brandt, Bill (eig. Hermann Wilhelm). Perspectives sur le Nu. Avec une introduction par Chapman Mortimer et une préface par Lawrence Durrell. Paris, Editions Prisma (1961). 4°. 14 S., [2] Bl. u. 90 Tafeln in Kupfertiefdruck. OHln.

Auer 408. Bertolotti 150 f. Koetzle 67 f. The Open Book 160. Parr/Badger I, 216. Roth, The Book of 101 Books 160 f. – Erste französische Ausgabe des Klassikers der Aktfotografie, erschien zeitgleich mit den englischen und amerikanischen Ausgaben. – „The best example of the relationship that had now been established between art and eroticisim is Persctive of Nudes (1961) by the English photographer Bill Brandt. In the first part of the work, images of female nudes taken in the 1940s are shown in stifling Victorian interiors; they evoke the language of the cinema of the time, as well as the Surrealist aesthetic. … By contrast, the series of photographs tken in the 1950s for the second part … suggests the contemporary artistic experiments of Jean Arp and Henry Moore. This series revolutionizes the language of photography, and creates something absoletely new“ (A. Bertolotti). – „Mortimer, whose writing here is crisp and clever, notes their formal inspiration in Henry Moore and Jean Arp, and points to Matisse and Picasso for models of voluptuous abstraction. But in the endcomparisons fail to convey Brandt’s utter originality. „Very rarely are we able to free our minds of thoughts and emotions and just see for simple pleasure of seeing,“ he wrote in the introduction to his book ‚Camera in London‘. Brandt knew that freedom, and fully explored it here“ (V. Aletti in Roth). – Sehr gutes sauberes Exemplar.