Friday, December 10, 2004
Bill Brandt Nudes
"One day in a second hand shop I found a 70 year old wooden kodak. Like nineteenth century cameras it had no shutter, and the wide-angle lens, with an aperture as minute as a pin-hole, was focused on infinity. My new camera saw more and it saw differently. It created a great illusion of space, an unrealistically steep perspective, and it distorted. I felt that I understood what Orson Welles meant when he said 'the camera is much more than a recording apparatus. It is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.'"
--Bill Brandt, from Brandt: The Photography of Bill Brandt, 1999.
By Bill Jay regarding the response to Perspective of Nudes by Bill Brandt in 1961: "The editors of Popular Photography found it impossible to accept the concept that this collection of poorly printed, ineptly cropped photographs of badly posed, unattractive women is his idea of a serious work."
--Brandt: The Photography of Bill Brandt, 1999.
Bill Brandt said: There are no rules, photography is not a sport.
I love this Bill Brandt quote: "...I found atmosphere to be the spell that charged the commonplace with beauty..., it is a combination of elements... which reveals the subject as familair and yet strange."
"One day in a second hand shop I found a 70 year old wooden kodak. Like nineteenth century cameras it had no shutter, and the wide-angle lens, with an aperture as minute as a pin-hole, was focused on infinity. My new camera saw more and it saw differently. It created a great illusion of space, an unrealistically steep perspective, and it distorted. I felt that I understood what Orson Welles meant when he said 'the camera is much more than a recording apparatus. It is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.'"
--Bill Brandt, from Brandt: The Photography of Bill Brandt, 1999.
By Bill Jay regarding the response to Perspective of Nudes by Bill Brandt in 1961: "The editors of Popular Photography found it impossible to accept the concept that this collection of poorly printed, ineptly cropped photographs of badly posed, unattractive women is his idea of a serious work."
--Brandt: The Photography of Bill Brandt, 1999.
Bill Brandt said: There are no rules, photography is not a sport.
I love this Bill Brandt quote: "...I found atmosphere to be the spell that charged the commonplace with beauty..., it is a combination of elements... which reveals the subject as familair and yet strange."
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