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Many key works are included here in what must be their earliest versions, as relatively small prints (often contact prints).  In addition, these are illuminating photographs that have so far not been published, such as a view of Brandt's bedroom in Paris in 1933, which includes the Surrealist journal 'Varietes'.","physicalDescription":"The album consists of a pale grass weave covered album with dark grey buffed paper pages.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Brandt, Bill","id":"A3492"},"association":{"text":"Photographer","id":"AAT25687"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"","categories":[],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":[],"imageResolution":"none","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLF","id":"THES49656"},"free":"","case":"X","shelf":"911","box":"Z(I-II)"}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"photograph","id":"AAT46300"}],[{"text":"photograph album","id":"AAT26695"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"ca. 1930","earliest":"1925-01-01","latest":"1934-12-31"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Purchased through the Cecil Beaton Royalties Fund","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"19","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"album cover","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"27.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"album cover","note":""},{"dimension":"Thickness","value":"3.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"album when closed","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"The album was purchased by the V&A in 2003, with money from the Sir Cecil Beaton Fund and donations given in memory of Elizabeth Martin, Senior Conservator of Photographs at the V&A from 1981 to 2003.","historicalContext":"This album was bequeathed to Frances Rice by Eva Boros.  The album was purcahsed by the V&A from Frances Rice.","briefDescription":"Album of photographs by Bill Brandt (album consisting of a pale grass weave covered album with dark grey buffed paper pages).","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Paul Dellany,  Bill Brandt:  A  Life, Jonathan Cape, 2004"}],"production":"This album was compiled by Eva Boros, Bill Brandt's first wife.  The inscriptions found in the album were made by Eva Boros","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"[INTRODUCTORY PANEL]\r\n\r\nOther Sides of Bill Brandt\r\n24 March – 25 July 2004\r\n\r\nThis display is part of the V&A’s centenary celebration of the work of the great British photographer Bill Brandt (1904–83). \r\n\r\nAlthough Brandt’s work was centred on Britain, he was from a highly cosmopolitan background. He was born in Hamburg, of an English-born father and German mother, and spent part of his youth in a sanatorium in Switzerland, under treatment for tuberculosis. In 1927-8 he underwent psychoanalysis, for the same illness, in Vienna. Here he assisted in a portrait studio and began his photographic career. He also met Eva Boros, who was to become his first wife. In 1930 he worked for Man Ray in Paris. He and Eva travelled together to Hungary, Hamburg, Paris, Madrid and Barcelona before settling in London in 1934. \r\n\r\nEva compiled two albums, chronicling her life with Bill Brandt, his brother Rolf and their close friends. They contain over 400 photographs (gelatin-silver prints), mostly by Brandt, and are assembled somewhat in the style of the new, illustrated photo-magazines of the time. Twelve pages are shown here. Together they illuminate Bill Brandt’s biography and his development as a photographer. In them we see Brandt trying out different photographic ideas and subjects. Some of the photographs were subsequently published in Brandt’s books and have become classics.","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null}}],"partNumbers":["E.984:1-2003"],"accessionNumberNum":"984","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":2003,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-06-19","recordCreationDate":"2004-01-27","availableToBook":false}}