Bill Brandt
Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

© Bill Brandt / Bill Brandt Archive Ltd.

Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound
ArtistBritish, born Germany, 1904–1983
CultureBritish
Titles
  • Ezra Pound
Date1928
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 1/2 × 6 3/8 in. (19.1 × 16.2 cm)
Sheet: 7 1/2 × 6 3/8 in. (19.1 × 16.2 cm)
Credit LineGift of Anne Wilkes Tucker in honor of David Bomford and Soni Véliz Bomford
Object number2019.538
Not on view

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Photography
Object Type
DescriptionIn the spring of 1928 Bill Brandt made his first important photograph—this portrait of American poet Ezra Pound (1885—1972). Pound was influential in avant-garde literary and artistic circles and introduced Brandt to his future mentor, Surrealist photographer Man Ray. Pound’s tight grin and uneasy expression of debonair intensity lends an almost menacing air to Brandt’s captivating portrait of a complex man who would later be a propagandist for the Axis powers in World War II. According to Brandt, “a good portrait ought to tell something of the subject’s past and suggest something of his future.”
ProvenanceAnne Wilkes Tucker, Houston; given to MFAH, 2019.
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
Inscribed in ink on sheet verso:
Ezra Pound
1928

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