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| USA | 29 |
| United Kingdom | 8 |
| France | 5 |
| Switzerland | 5 |
| Spain | 4 |
| Most exhibitions held at: |
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MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, USA |
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Biography: 
3.5.1904 Born in Hamburg (DE)
While studying architecture in Germany and Switzerland Bill Brandt began working in portrait studios where he fell in love with photography. He later moved to Paris and studied under Man Ray between 1929-1930. While Brandt admired photographers such as Edward Weston, Cartier-Bresson and Eugene Atget, he became greatly influenced by surrealism.
In 1931 he returned to England where he became a freelance photographer and began documenting the English way of life. His images were featured in publications including Harper's Bazaar, News Chronicle and Picture Post. With the onset of World War II, Brandt became a staff photographer for the British Home Office where he reported on the hardships of the English people during the German bombing raids. By the end of the war, Brandt had become disillusioned with documentary photography and yearned to create the type of images he made in his earlier years in Paris. He began to photograph nudes, landscapes and portraits. Brandt is best known for his high contrast images with their stark black-and-white tones, and for his use of a wide-angle lens which distorted the subject matter and gave the image a surreal quality.
His work can be found in most museums that collect photographs.
20.12.1983 Died in London, England (UK)
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Public exhibitions 71
until 5.12.
Solo shows 17
2008
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| Bill Brandt: Shadows and Substance - Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH |
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| Photographs by Bill Brandt: A Sense of Wonder - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX |
2006
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| Bill Brandt - A Retrospective - Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL |
2005
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| Bill Brandt - Photography - Galerie Karsten Greve - Paris, Paris |
2004
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| Bill Brandt - Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| BILL BRANDT: A CENTENARY RETROSPECTIVE - Galerie V&V, Vienna |
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| Bill Brandt: A Centenary Retrospective - Victoria and Albert Museum - V&A, London (England) |
2003
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| Bill Brandt: A Retrospective - Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT |
2001
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| Bill Brandt - A Retrospective - The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA |
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| Known and Unknown - Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York City, NY |
1999
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| Bill Brandt - A Retrospective - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
1995
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| Bill Brandt - Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur |
1986
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| Billy Brandt - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg |
1983
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| Bill Brandt: A Memorial - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1982
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| Photographs by Bill Brandt - Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY |
1972
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| Bill Brandt - Photography - Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth |
1969
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| Bill Brandt - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
Group shows 53
2009
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| Reality Revisted - Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
2008
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| Mujeres en plural - Fundacion Canal, Madrid |
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| Darkside - Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur |
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| Fotógrafos da Vida Moderna - Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo |
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| PHotoEspaña 08 - PHotoEspaña, Madrid |
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| Art in the Age of Steam - Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (England) |
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| Private and Public: Class, Personality, Politics, and Landscape in British Photography - Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
2007
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| The Search to See II: Photographs from the Collection of Frederick B. Scheel - The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Livres de nus, une anthologie - Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris |
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| Photographic Formalities: From Ansel Adams to Weegee - Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL |
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| A Selection of Exceptional Vintage Photographs - Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| Ingenium.Photographie et Ingeniosite 1846 - 2006 - BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels |
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| VIP - National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT |
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| How We Are - Photographing Britain - Tate Britain, London (England) |
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| Another View: Photographs from the Seresin Family Collection - Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin |
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| Fondation Beyeler: EROS in der Kunst der Moderne - Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna |
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| Oog / Eye - Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam |
2006
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| busy going crazy. the Sylvio Perlstein collection - La Maison Rouge, Paris |
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| EROS in der Kunst der Moderne - Foundation Beyeler, Riehen |
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| Photographs by the Score: Personal Visions Twenty-Some Years Apart - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Between a rock and a hard place: the stone in art - Kenny Schachter / ROVE Projects LLP, London (England) |
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| Sans Regard - La collection Dancing Bear de W. M. Hunt - Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne |
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| Making History - Art and Documentary in Britain from 1929 to Now - Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (England) |
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| Retrospective 12+Contemporary Experimental Images - Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai |
2005
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| De la comtesse De Castiglione à Cindy Sherman - New Galerie de France, Paris |
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| Skin - Photographs of the Body from the 20th Century - NGV National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, VIC |
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| Go Figure - Selections From The Permanent Collection - Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL |
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| A Baker's Dozen - Alexandra R. Marshall Collection - Laurence Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Magritte Privé - BOZAR - Palais des Beaux-Arts / Paleis voor Schone Kunsten, Brussels |
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| Daguerreotype to Digital: Photographs from the Collection - Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS |
2004
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| Few Are Chosen: Street Photography and the Book, 1936–1966 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| Casa de luz - Colección Mário Teixeira da Silva - Fundació Foto Colectania, Barcelona |
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| Variaciones en España - Fotografía y Arte 1900 - 1980 - Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria |
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| The Artist Observed - Portraits and Self-Portraits - Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
2003
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| A Clear Vision: Photographic Works from the F.C. Gundlach Collection - Deichtorhallen, Hamburg |
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| Working Nine to Five: Vintage Photographs of People at Work - Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA |
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| Photography and Photogravure - Marlborough London, London (England) |
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| Looking at Photographs - 125 photographs from the Museum of Modern Art, New York - The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg |
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| Flesh Tones - 100 Years of the Nude - Robert Mann Gallery, New York City, NY |
2002
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| World War II: Vintage Photographs - Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA |
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| Der Akt in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts - Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden |
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| A Thousand Hounds - A Walk with the Dogs through the History of Photography - Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL |
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| Madeleine´s favourite legs show - Cokkie Snoei - Rotterdam, Rotterdam |
2001
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| The Fine Art of Photography - Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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| The Desiring Eye - The Best Pictures of the History of Photography - ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen |
2000
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| Body Work: Photographs of Nudes - The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN |
1998
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| In the Cold: Photography 1945 - 1965 - Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, SA |
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| Waterproof/A Prova de Agua - Centro Cultural de Belém - CCB, Lisbon |
1997
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| Private View. Collection Allan Porter - Museum im Bellpark, Kriens |
1996
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| By Night - Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris |
1995
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| Masters of Illusion: Photographs by Bill Brandt and Harry Callahan - Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY |
1983
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| 19th & 20th Century Master - ArtSpace - Virginia Miller Galleries, Coral Gables (Miami), FL |
1948
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| Photographs by Bill Brandt, Harry Callahan, Ted Croner, Lisette Model - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
| Dealer Directory 21 |
Austria
| | Galerie Johannes Faber, Vienna
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Belgium
| | Keitelman Gallery, Brussels
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France
Germany
| | LUMAS Editionsgalerie - Berlin, Berlin
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Japan
Monaco
| | Marlborough Monaco, Monaco
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United Kingdom
| | Roman Black Gallery, London (England)
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| | England & Co, London (England)
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| | Michael Hoppen Gallery, London (England)
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USA
| | Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
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| | Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
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| | Stephen Daiter Gallery, Chicago, IL
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| | John Cleary Gallery, Houston, TX
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| | Cook Fine Art, New York City, NY
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| | Gitterman Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Charles Isaacs Photographs, New York City, NY
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| | Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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| | Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA
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Public collections 14
Australia
| | Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
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Canada
| | National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON
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| | Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
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| | Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba
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Japan
| | Yokohama Museum of Art, Nishi-ku, Yokohama
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Sweden
| | Moderna Museet, Stockholm
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Switzerland
| | Fotostiftung Schweiz (Schweizerische Stiftung für die Photographie), Winterthur
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United Kingdom
| | National Media Museum, Bradford (England)
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| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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USA
| | Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
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| | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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