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Perspective of Nudes.

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With a Preface by Lawrence Durrell and an Introduction by Chapman Mortimer.

Perspective of Nudes.

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With a Preface by Lawrence Durrell and an Introduction by Chapman Mortimer.

Stock Code 111657

London, The Bodley Head, 1961

Bill Brandt found his first attempts at photographing the nude frustrating and sought something that would give him a less conventional image. He subsequently purchased a nineteenth-century view camera with a wide-angle lens. 'When I began to photograph nudes, I let myself be guided by this camera, and instead of photographing what I saw, I photographed what the camera was seeing. I interfered very little, and the lens produced anatomical images and shapes which my eyes had never observed. I felt that I understood what Orson Welles meant when he said "the camera is much more than a recording more than a recording apparatus. It is a medium via which messages reach us from another world."'

First edition; 4to (275 x 240 mm, 10¾ x 9½ in); black-and-white photographs printed in gravure, bend to top corner; printed paper-covered boards, titles to spine and upper side in red, top corners bumped, dent to fore-edges, photo-illustrated dust-jacket, laminate lifting at spine, nicks fore-edge to lower panel, creasing to top corners, two short tears to upper and lower panels strengthened with tape on verso, near-fine; 14, [106]pp.

The Book of 101 Books pp160-1; The Photobook: A History I, p216.
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Shapero Rare Books is an internationally renowned dealer in antiquarian & rare books and works on paper.

Our Bookshop and Gallery can be found in the heart of Mayfair at 106 New Bond Street, where most of our stock is available to view and on public display.

We exhibit at major international art fairs, including TEFAF (Maastricht and New York), Frieze Masters, Art Miami and Masterpiece London, as well as antiquarian & rare book fairs including New York, Paris, London, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Hong Kong.

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Perspective of Nudes.

BRANDT, Bill.

Stock code: 111657

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