The Easel

28th July 2020

Bill Brandt/Henry Moore, The Hepworth Wakefield review – a matter of perception

Brandt, a photographer, and Moore, a sculptor, both recorded London during WW2, working independently but often on similar subjects. Moore’s sketches have a “mythical” quality but Brandt’s developing and cropping techniques made his images equally subjective. There is no hierarchy between these artforms says one critic, “both artists seem to have been aiming for the same semi-abstract goal.”

‘Unflinching humanity’ – how photographer Paul Fusco united an America in pain

Fusco was invited into Magnum Photo in 1973, having built a reputation as a photojournalist. His signature style highlighted the human side of major social events – AIDS sufferers, destitute miners, the population affected by the Chernobyl disaster. Most famously he recorded the crowds witnessing the 1968 funeral train of Robert Kennedy – “the silent, staring faces a testimony to a dream not so much deferred as destroyed”.