Parlourmaid and Under-Parlourmaid Ready to Serve Dinner

Bill Brandt

ca. 1934 · Gelatin silver print · Photographs

In Brandt's first book, The English at Home (1936), he juxtaposed the privileged and working classes, frequently using his friends and family as subjects. Pratt, the stern parlourmaid in the country house of one of the photographer's wealthy uncles, was a particular favorite of Brandt's, perhaps because she so thoroughly inhabited her role.

Artist

Bill Brandt

Date

ca. 1934

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Ford Motor Company Collection, Gift of Ford Motor Company and John C. Waddell, 1987