Artist: Henry Brandt
Exhibition title: Henry Brandt. Cinéaste et photographe
Venue: Neuchâtel Museum of Art and History, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Date: November 14, 2021 – May 29, 2021
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Neuchâtel Museum of Art and History
The first large-scale exhibition ever devoted to Henry Brandt (1921-1998) marks the centenary of his birth.As visitors make their way through this exhibition, they will discover the work of this major figure in Swiss cinema who produced peerless documentaries about Africa and Switzerland. The exhibition also focuses on Brandt’s photographic output, which has remained largely unknown until now.
Born in 1921, Henry Brandt was a self-taught exponent of the cinematic and photographic arts. Together with Alain Tanner and Claude Goretta in particular, he was one of the co-founders of the Swiss Filmmakers Association (ARF/FDS) in 1962. Brandt produced a large number of films during an active professional career that spanned some 35 years. His shorts for the Swiss National Exposition in 1964 made a lasting impression on an entire generation of visitors.
The Henry Brandt project is the result of a fruitful partnership between specialists from the Department of Film History and Aesthetics (CIN) at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), the Swiss Film Archive (Cinémathèque suisse), the Audio-Visual Department of the City Library of La Chaux-de-Fonds (DAV) and the Neuchâtel Ethnographic Museum (MEN). A publication of over 300 pages is being released to mark the occasion.
Henry Brandt. Cinéaste et photographe, 2021, exhibition view, Neuchâtel Museum of Art and History © Fonds Henry Brandt, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel
Henry Brandt. Cinéaste et photographe, 2021, exhibition view, Neuchâtel Museum of Art and History © Fonds Henry Brandt, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel
Henry Brandt. Cinéaste et photographe, 2021, exhibition view, Neuchâtel Museum of Art and History © Fonds Henry Brandt, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel
Henry Brandt. Cinéaste et photographe, 2021, exhibition view, Neuchâtel Museum of Art and History © Fonds Henry Brandt, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel
Henry Brandt. Cinéaste et photographe, 2021, exhibition view, Neuchâtel Museum of Art and History © Fonds Henry Brandt, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel
Henry Brandt. Cinéaste et photographe, 2021, exhibition view, Neuchâtel Museum of Art and History © Fonds Henry Brandt, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel
Henry Brandt. Cinéaste et photographe, 2021, exhibition view, Neuchâtel Museum of Art and History © Fonds Henry Brandt, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel
Henry Brandt, Aux abords du cratère du volcan Nyiragongo, Congo, 1957, © Fonds Henry Brandt, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel
Henry Brandt, Cimetière automobile à Emeryville, Californie, USA, 1967, © Fonds Henry Brandt, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel
Henry Brandt, Distillation du marc, Cormondrèche, 1956, © Fonds Henry Brandt, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel
Henry Brandt, Exploitation de la tourbe au Cachot, La Chaux-du-Milieu, 1959, © Fonds Henry Brandt, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel
Henry Brandt, Hommes sur un éléphant, parc national de Bandipur, Inde, 1966, © Fonds Henry Brandt, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel
Henry Brandt, Jeune femme bororo, Niger, 1953-1954, © Fonds Henry Brandt, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel
Henry Brandt, Jeunes hommes parés pour la fête, Niger, 1953, © Fonds Henry Brandt, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel
Henry Brandt, La Course au bonheur, 1964, © Fonds Henry Brandt, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel
Henry Brandt, La Suisse s’interroge La Course au bonheur, Expo 64, 1964, © Fonds Henry Brandt, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel
Henry Brandt, Lâché d’eau du barrage de Bratsk (Sibérie), URSS, 1968, © Fonds Henry Brandt, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel
Henry Brandt, Lutteurs, Bratsk, Sibérie, URSS, 1968, © Fonds Henry Brandt, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel
Henry Brandt, Marché aux poissons, Tokyo, 1966, © Fonds Henry Brandt, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel
Henry Brandt, Musée d’art à Moscou, URSS, 1968, © Fonds Henry Brandt, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel
Henry Brandt, Panneau des ouvriers modèles, Bratsk (Sibérie), URSS, 1968, © Fonds Henry Brandt, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel
Henry Brandt, Port de pêche, Espagne, 1950, © Fonds Henry Brandt, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel
Henry Brandt, Portrait d’enfant, Espagne, 1950, © Fonds Henry Brandt, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel
Henry Brandt, Site du pèlerinage de la Kumbh Mela, Allahabad, Inde, 1966, © Fonds Henry Brandt, Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel