Bill Brandt (1904-1983) Campden Hill, London (Nude), c. 1957 Gelatin silver print, probably printed late 1950s; the photographer's credit stamp, a 'Rapho Guillumette Pictures/59 East 54th Street/New York 22' stamp, and with '68'[circled] in ink on the reverse. 9 x 7 7/8 in. (22.9 x 20 cm.) sheet 10 x 8 in. (25.4 x 20.3 cm.) Footnotes: Literature Bill Brandt, Perspective of Nudes (New York, 1961), p. 61 Brandt: The Photography of Bill Brandt (New York, 1999), plate 240, p. 26 Sarah Hermanson Meister, Bill Brandt: Shadow & Light (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2013), p. 158 Note 'One day in a second-hand shop, near Covent Carden, I found a 70-year-old wooden Kodak. I was delighted. 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. In 1926, Edward Weston wrote in his diary, 'The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?' My new camera saw more and it saw differently. It created a great illusion of space, an unrealistically steep perspective, and it distorted. 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 apparatus. It is a medium via which messages reach us from another world.'' - Bill Brandt, The Photography of Bill Brandt, p. 235 A print of this image is in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (PH.152-1978). For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing