{"id":14560,"date":"2013-08-01T16:16:15","date_gmt":"2013-08-01T14:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidbosman.fr\/blog\/?p=14560"},"modified":"2013-08-01T16:16:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-01T14:16:15","slug":"bill-brandts-negative-beginnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidbosman.fr\/blog\/2013\/08\/01\/bill-brandts-negative-beginnings\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Brandt\u2019s Negative Beginnings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By examining the prints closely, viewers can also see that nothing was off-limits for Mr. Brandt when it came to darkroom work. He would print something one way and then print it in a totally different way, recrop it and often extensively retouch. He would use a straight razor to cut, scrape and press the emulsion, a fine brush to apply ink or watercolor washes, or a graphite pencil to add or strengthen detail.\n
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\n He certainly wasn\u2019t the only photographer to retouch images extensively or to mine different sections of the gray scale. But the wildly different printing approaches he took during his career made his work difficult to understand fully.

\n The MOMA exhibit, which runs through Aug. 12, is a tribute not only to the breadth of his work, but also to the primacy of the print \u2014 the physical object \u2014 in truly comprehending photographic artists.\n

\n \u201cIn the past, discussion of the dramatic evolution of Brandt\u2019s printing style has been relegated to the sidelines, and while it is necessary to value the nearly impenetrable darkness and muted tones \u2028of his early prints from the 1930s, it is not so simple to dismiss the forcefulness of his later interpretations as an aging man\u2019s bastard prints,\u201d Ms. Meister wrote in the book\u2019s introduction. \u201cIndeed, a significant part of Brandt\u2019s art is that the exposure of the negative was, for him, only the beginning. In many respects, each Brandt print is unique because the pervasiveness of his hand in retouching his work \u2014 to correct and to enhance, with a variety of tools \u2014 means that it is rare to find two prints presented in an identical manner.\u201d\n

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