Bill Brandt North America

Bill Brandt North AmericaThames & Hudson 2020 With a career spanning nearly half a century, Bill Brandt was a master of several major genres of photography: photojournalism, portraiture, the nude and landscapes. At first glance, Brandt's genres may appear unrelated, but when analysing his career in its entirety, a common theme comes to the forefront: what psychologist Sigmund Freud and philosopher Eugenio Trias called 'the sinister.' From his earliest photographs taken as an

using a Deardorff 8X10

Szarkowksi wrote

And with each click of the shutter

Section-sewn OTA-bound softcover with a grid delicately debossed and tip-on

essays by novelists Lauren Groff and Ian McGuire

wildly colourful

the camera struggles to assemble a coherent representation

ISBN 978-1-913620-17-2

Mélaina Cholé from Ancient Greek μέλας (melas)

which saw a train containing a travelling studio cross the USA from the Atlantic to the Pacific

as was normal for it to be

fully capturing the youthful charisma and attitude in his subjects’ postures