A book that looks back to Kertesz's Distortions and forward to the psychedelia of the late 60s. As Vince Aletti writes, Brandt "conjured a dream world of skewed perspectives in which his nude female subjects appeared to float unanchored or loom like giants." Parr and Badger writing in The Photobook: A History, vol. 1, assert that these images "rewrote the language of nude photography in not one, but several quarters...[they are] as interesting for their psychological undertones as for the wealth of unexpected forms he conjured...Brandt pictured a world of faded grandeur, of Edwardian bourgeois homes metamorphosing into 1940s bedsit land--cavernous refuges for European émigrés or bohemian nonconformists." Also included in The Open Book.

The Bodley Head 1961

First Edition

9.5 × 11 in