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03/11/2013 05:49:57 PM · #1 |
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03/12/2013 01:57:27 PM · #3 |
I liked his stuff, partly because he did so many different things. Times review article links to a nice slideshow. This part was pretty interesting ...
Originally posted by Linked NY Times Review:
When shooting on assignment he tended to retain the best images for himself: the portrait of Robert Graves that appeared in a 1941 issue of Picture Post shows a young man focused on his work; the one from the same session that Brandt held back shows the poet looking more mature, a quill pen clasped between his teeth and a slightly mad, oracular gleam in his eye.
A short, fascinating, well-illustrated catalog essay by Lee Ann Daffner, the Modern̢۪s conservator of photography, delves into Brandt̢۪s extensive fine-tuning of his negatives to achieve the effects he wanted: highlighting lines and textures with razor blades or pencils; removing imperfections and intensifying lights and darks with ink, wash or white gouache (as on the white of Dubuffet̢۪s eye).
In the darkroom Brandt manipulated his negatives to such an extent that each print was more or less unique. |
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03/13/2013 04:21:19 AM · #4 |
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