March 26, 2004
'Bill Brandt: A Life'
On a clear night in wartime London, St. Paul's Cathedral stands inky against the sky. The blackout has swallowed the city, but a photographer, Bill Brandt, finds enough moonlight to take an eerie picture: The church in velvet silhouette, a pile of moonlit rubble in the foreground. London's cost of war.
The city's nightly darkness during the Blitz appealed to Brandt's own desire for concealment, says Paul Delany, a professor of English just retired from Simon Fraser University and
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