Time Exposure: The Life of Brodrick Haldane, Photographer, 1912-96 - Softcover

Haldane, Brodrick; Martine, Roderick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1900850117 ISBN 13: 9781900850117

Publisher: Arcadia Books, 1998

Synopsis

It is difficult now to imagine the impact of Brodrick Haldane's first photographs, taken in the 1930s when social photography was an entirely new phenomenon. But at the time, they revealed a hitherto unseen world of gaiety and glamour. Born into the Scottish aristocracy, Haldene was readily accepted into the best circles where others were turned away. The shy youth used his camera to photograph his friends at parties in the London of the 1930s. Soon he was spending summers in the South of France and winters in Austria or Switzerland, chronicling the exploits of international society. When the Second World War broke out, Brodrick joined the 83rd Battery. After the war, he settled in Lausanne, and throughout the 1950s mixed with the likes of Marlene Dietrich, Charlie Chaplin, the exiled Queen of Spain and Noel Coward.

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Brodrick Haldane was born into the Scottish aristocracy in 1912. After school, the shy youth began using his vest-pocket camera to photograph his friends at parties in the London of the 1930s when social photography was an entirely new phenomenon. Spending summers in the South of France and winters in Switzerland or Austria, he chronicled the exploits of international society - the Queen Mother, the Aga Khan and Margaret, Duchess or Argyll were among his better-known subjects. After the war, he settled in Lausanne as the guest of his friend the Countess d'Antraigues, and throughout the 1950s mixed with the likes of Marlene Dietrich, Charlie Chaplin, the exiled Queen of Spain and Noel Coward. In the sixties Haldane returned to Scotland, where he would hold court for the next thirty years. Six months before he died in 1996, the man who invented modern society photography began recounting his life's escapades to Roddy Martine. The outcome of their conversation is Time Exposure which was published in 1999.

Edition details

• Publisher: Arcadia Books
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1900850117
• ISBN 13: 9781900850117
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192