Bill Brandt
East Sussex Coast

East Sussex Coast

© Bill Brandt / Bill Brandt Archive Ltd.

East Sussex Coast
East Sussex Coast
ArtistBritish, born Germany, 1904–1983
CultureBritish
Titles
  • East Sussex Coast
Date1958, printed later
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 13 7/16 × 11 3/8 in. (34.1 × 28.9 cm)
Sheet: 13 7/16 × 11 3/8 in. (34.1 × 28.9 cm)
Mount: 20 × 15 15/16 in. (50.8 × 40.5 cm)
Credit LineThe Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection
Object number91.419
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Of
his outdoor nudes on a favorite rocky beach on the East Sussex coast, Bill
Brandt wrote that although he no longer used the wide-angle Kodak camera with
which he had begun the nude series, “I continued to let the [camera] lenses
discover images for me. It is difficult to explain how I took the last
photographs. They were perhaps chance pictures; unexpected combinations of
shapes and landscapes. I watched them appear on the ground glass and exposed.
It was as simple as that.”




ProvenanceAllan Chasanoff, New York; given to MFAH, 1991.
Exhibition History"Photographs by Bill Brandt: A Sense of Wonder," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Cameron Gallery, February 2-April 27, 2008.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
lower right corner below image in ink " Bill Brandt "

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