Brandt, Bill - The shadow of light - hardcover

First edition thus. Hardcover. Features the original introduction by Cyril Connolly along with a new one by Mark Haworth-Booth. Includes 144 black and white images, with many of Brandt's best known images featured. A near fine copy in a very good plus price clipped dust jacket with some minor edge wear.

Bill Brandt (born Hermann Wilhelm Brandt, Hamburg, 2 May 1904 - London, 20 December 1983) was a British photographer and photojournalist. Although born in Germany, Brandt moved to England, where he became known for his images of British society for magazines such as Lilliput and Picture Post, later making distorted nudes, portraits of famous artists and landscapes. He is widely regarded as one of the most important British photographers of the 20th century.

hardcover isbn 0 900406 65 8