Les nus de Brandt sont parmi les plus intéressants de tout l'ensemble de la photographie.
Parr amp Badger in their book, “The Photobook: A History”, state that these images "rewrote the language of nude photography in not one, but several quarters.
. . they are as interesting for their psychological undertones as for the wealth of unexpected forms he conjured.
. . Brandt pictured a world of faded grandeur, of Edwardian bourgeois homes metamorphosing intos bedsit landcavernous refuges for European émigrés or bohemian nonconformists.
" Vince Aletti in “The Book ofBooks: Seminal Photographic Books of the Twentieth Century” added, Brandt "conjured a dream world of skewed perspectives in which his nude female subjects appeared to float unanchored or loom like giants".
Containingfull page black and white photogravures and measuring approximatelyx”, the book is bound in decorative paper covered boards with a photographically illustrated dust jacket.
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