Bill Brandt, Photographer of Social Contrasts; Maiden Castle; Pulpit Rock; Hardy's Wessex

Victoria and Albert Museum, Bill Brandt Biography

Parlourmaids, coal-miners, coal-searchers in the 1930s.

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Checklist (see Landscape Section, p. 28, Thomas Hardy's Wessex, Lilliput, May 1946)

Bill Brandt photographed Pulpit Rock, Portland (1948); and Maiden Castle (photographed 1945), Lulworth, Shaftesbury, Tess's Cottage Marnhull, Egdon Heath and Corfe Castle for Thomas Hardy's Wessex (as well as Stonehenge and Salisbury Cathedral):

Bill Brandt, Maiden Castle, Near Dorchester, 
one of eight images for Thomas Hardy's Wessex, Lilliput, May 1946

V and A:

Maiden Castle, Dorset
1945 (photographed)
1976 (printed)
Gelatin silver print
Purchase, 1978
Museum number: PH.99-1978
Gallery location: Prints and Drawings Study Room, level H, case X, shelf 911, box Q

Art Institute Chicago

Compare with Paul Nash's photograph (1935/36)