Untitled (Nude)
c. 1955
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 22.86 × 19.37 cm (9 × 7 5/8 in.) sheet: 26.67 × 23.5 cm (10 1/2 × 9 1/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Jeffrey Hugh Newman
Accession Number
2004.142.1
About the Artist
Bill Brandt
Bill Brandt (1904–1983) was born in Hamburg and spent his early years in Germany, though he later claimed a South London birth and cultivated an identity as a quintessentially British photographer. As a young man he suffered from tuberculosis, which required a lengthy stay in a Swiss sanatorium, and it was during his convalescence that his interest in photography deepened. In 1929 he traveled to P...