Bill Brandt - Camera in London - 1948

EARLY MASTERPIECE BY LEGENDARY BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHER BILL BRANDT (1904-1983).

A collection of 59 ground-breaking black and white photographs along with a foldout technical guide to them as well; divided into seven chapters: 'The River', 'The Homes', 'The People', 'The Kids', 'The Air', 'The Lights' and 'The War'.

TRUE FIRST ORIGINAL HARDCOVER EDITION FROM 1948 (!) WITH SEPARATE ORIGINAL DUSTJACKET.
There was also a paperback variant published same time.

Excellent book by Bill Brandt that has not been recognised nearly as much as his groundbreaking ‘Perspective of Nudes’, and not without good reason.

'This is a book picturing London - London as only the Londoner knows it. ... You will see something of the private life of the world's biggest city. ... In what he has say about his pictures, Bill Brandt gives his creed as a photographer - tells what it is that attracts him in making photographs, how he finds his subjects, the effects he aims at and how he tries to achieve them. He is not a photographer who has a single technical formula for his approach, or that dangerous facility with words which he can cover up a problem by over-simplifying it. Bill Brandt does not set out to explain either the moods of London or his own moods, reflected here in his images of the great city. He merely hopes to share his views and vistas with others.'
(publisher's flap text)

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Bill Brandt is famous for some of the most important photobooks ever published like "The English at home", "A Night in London" or "Perspective of Nudes" (Andrew Roth, The Book of 101 Books, page 160/161. Martin Parr, The Photobook, vol 1, page 216. The Open Book, The Hasselblad Center, Stockholm, page 1888/189. Alessandro Bertolotti, Books of Nudes, page 150/151. 802 photobooks of the M.+M. Auer collection, page 408).

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Focal Press, London. 1948. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover with photo-illustrated dustjacket. 175 x 260 mm. 96 pages. Copiously illustrated in black and white throughout. 59 photos by Bill Brandt. Printed in the Netherlands by H.L. Smit and Zn., Hengelo. Text in English.

Condition:
Book outside very fresh and flawless (protect by the original dustjacket). Book inside fresh and clean with no marks and with no foxing; just on page 51 a stain (in the white part below the photo), technical data sheet with crease (like always, production problem), otherwise flawless. Dustjacket with very fresh, impressive and complete front; at the spine with small missing part at the top, rare side with two small tears and one neat missing part. Overall fine, much better than usual condition.

Scarce, fragile British photobook classic in the very scarce hardcover edition with separate, photo-illustrated dustjacket - hard to find in any condition.
Issued in the Masters of the Camera series, edited by A. Kraszna-Krausz.