Brandt reports
Sir: Gavin Stamp took the Times to task ('Curious priorities', 3 March) for its failures in the obituary department. Quite so: it's a dying art. However, Mr Stamp does not improve matters by managing to get his own facts wrong. His remarks about Bill Brandt are based on hearsay not history. He follows the Times faithfully by getting the year of Bill Brandt's birth wrong, although he is correct about the place. However, it is misleading to say that the facts about Bill Brandt's early years are 'published'. True, there are one or two remarks to be found in an old Lilliput of 40 years ago but the facts are really only set out for the first time in our catalogue of Bill Brandt's Literary Britain published on 7 March.
Mark Haworth-Booth
Assistant Keeper of Photographs, Victoria & Albert Museum, London SW7
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