The photographer of the moors

If you have planned to be in Paris before December 18, you will have the chance of seeing a successful exhibition who has travelled around the world: Hommage à Bill Brandt.

Click here to read the press release, where they say what is of interest to us Brontë fans:

Experimenting with the landscape form, he travelled on wartime trains to the most poetic of Britain’s scenic settings. The exhibition will feature evocative images of Thomas Hardy’s ‘Wessex’ and the Bronte sisters’ Yorkshire Moors.

On his website we found more details about these pictures:

He states that:

One of my favourite pictures of this time [by the end of WWII] is Top Withens on the Yorkshire moors. I was then trying to photograph the country which had inspired Emily Bronte.

And explains how they were taken:

He used an old Kodak camera with pinpoint focus to capture many of his haunting landscapes, among them the Yorkshire moors house, Top Withins, said to have inspired Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights."

For more info on Bill Brandt, you can always check out his website or read his Wikipedia entry.

(The pictures are courtesy of this and this website. And both were taken in the 1940s. You can also click here to see a picture of the moors).

Categories: Art-Exhibitions, Haworth, Wuthering_Heights, Emily_Brontë