Bill Brandt documents The English at Home
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Author: Brandt, Bill
Title: The English at Home: Sixty-three Photographs by Bill Brandt
Place Published: London
Publisher:B.T. Batsford
Date Published: [1936]
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8 pp. introduction by Raymond Mortimer. With 63 finescreen gravure plates from photographs by Brandt. 23.3x18.5 cm (9¼x7¼"), photo-pictorial boards. First Edition.
Brandt's classic social documentary of the upstairs/downstairs polarity in British culture. "Brandt came from a privileged background, but managed to focus on the lower classes without the condescension that frequently accompanied the middle-class Englishman investigating the lower order like an anthropologist examining a foreign tribe." - Parr & Badger, Vol. I, p. 138.
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Author: Brandt, Bill
Title: The English at Home: Sixty-three Photographs by Bill Brandt
Place Published: London
Publisher:B.T. Batsford
Date Published: [1936]
Description:
8 pp. introduction by Raymond Mortimer. With 63 finescreen gravure plates from photographs by Brandt. 23.3x18.5 cm (9¼x7¼"), photo-pictorial boards. First Edition.
Brandt's classic social documentary of the upstairs/downstairs polarity in British culture. "Brandt came from a privileged background, but managed to focus on the lower classes without the condescension that frequently accompanied the middle-class Englishman investigating the lower order like an anthropologist examining a foreign tribe." - Parr & Badger, Vol. I, p. 138.
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