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BRANDT, NICK (1966- )
“Elephant with Half-Ear, Amboseli (July 2010), Killed by Poachers (August 2010), from the series
‘Across the Ravaged Land.’”Archival pigment print, 40x50 inches (101.6x127 cm.), flush mounted
to aluminum with a frame backing, with Brandt’s signature, date, and edition notation 4/12, in
pencil, on print recto. 2010
[15,000/20,000]
Brandt’s series “Across the Ravaged Land” is the third portion of his trilogy documenting endangered
and vanishing wildlife of East Africa. Intimate and tender while also revealing the ravages wrought by
man, Brandt describes his portraits of animals as an “elegy,” and indeed each image is filled both with
love, admiration, a natural majesty, and also tinged with poignancy. Brandt only shoots medium-format
black and white film on a Pentax 67II without zoom or telephoto lenses (he uses only two fixed lenses).
