Thomas bodley autobiography of a flea market
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Bill Brandt (1904-83) is the finest British photographer of modern times. He photographed with imagination, compassion and humour. His photographs show us the vivid interactions of social life and the realities of labour and class. He is a witness to the Depression of the 1930s and the Blitz of 1940. He revised and renewed the major artistic genres of portraiture, landscape and the nude.
Bill Brandt brought to the British scene a unique sensibility formed elsewhere, He saw Britain with the eyes of a continental European and a Surrealist.
His achievement is central to the development of photography as an artistic medium in Britain but he was also admired by great masters elsewhere - including Brassaï in Paris, Edward Steichen, Walker Evans and Robert Frank in New York, and Eikoh Hosoe in Tokyo.
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| Title | The Flea Market, Paris (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | gelatin silver print |
| Brief description | Black and white photograph by Bill Brandt, 'The Flea Market, Paris', gelatin silver print, 1929, printed later |
| Physical description | A black and white photograph of two clothed dress forms. |
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| Marks and inscriptions | artist's signature |
| Credit line | Purchase, 1978 |
| Object history | Bill Brandt was born in Hamburg on 2 May 1904 to an English father and a German mother. He suffered from bullying as a schoolboy after the First World War. Because of this experience, and later the rise of Nazism, Brandt disowned his German background. In later life he said that he was born in south London. Effective date: October 26, 2018 Morris Oxford (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the https://morrisoxford.co.uk website (hereinafter referred to as the “Service”). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data. We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, the terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from https://morrisoxford.co.uk Service is the https://morrisoxford.co.uk website operated by Morris Oxford Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession). Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit). Data Controller means the natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information are, or are to be, processed. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data. Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller. We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively. Data Subject is any living individual who is using our Service and is the subject of Personal Data. We collect several dif If you know my husband very well (or at all), you will have heard this phrase come out of his mouth many times. Well, now it’s my turn! Here is my* top ten “Did you know??” list about Oxford: 1. Oxford is known as the “City of Dreaming Spires,” a phrase coined by the poet Matthew Arnold, because of the many architectural spires that reach into the skyline. See the photo above. 2. The University of Oxford is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. The first colleges were built in the 13th century. The University of Cambridge was founded by Oxford scholars who fled the town when the first of the “Town versus Gown” riots occurred here in 1209 following the murder of a woman by students. 3. The city has been around since the Saxon times, and used to be known as Oxenforda (“Ford of the Oxen”) because it was here that cattle crossed the river. St. Michael at the North Gate Tower (it is at the original location of the North Gate when Oxford was surrounded by a city wall) is the oldest building in Oxford, from that era. The tower was built in 1040. 4. Lewis Carroll (whose real name was Charles Dodgson), author of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, was a mathematics lecturer at Christ Church College in Oxford. The story of Alice’s adventures was first told to a real girl named Alice (Liddell, whose father was the Dean of Christ Church) and her two sisters on a boating trip, and afterward she asked him to write the story down for her. The first copy of the book, titled Alice’s Adventures Underground, was hand-written and illustrated by Dodgson, which he gave to Alice as a Christmas gift many months later. 5. Other notable writers who spent time in Oxford were: J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, T.E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”), and Oscar Wilde. 6. The Bodlelian Library houses at least one copy of every book published in |