Bill brandt photographer photography magazine
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Bill Brandt's best-known work documents the vivid social contrasts in Britain during the World Wars. He also photographed the landscapes of 'Literary Britain' and a pantheon of great artists and writers.
Photographing the English
The extreme social contrast, during those years before the war, was, visually, very inspiring for me. I started by photographing in London, the West End, the suburbs, the slums.
Bill Brandt
Brandt visited England during the late s, and he and his first wife, Eva, settled in Belsize Park, north London, in He adopted Britain as his home and it became the subject of his greatest photographs. The majority of Brandt's earliest English photographs were first published in his photobook, The English at Home.
The young photographer used his family contacts – for example, his wealthy banker uncles – to gain access to a variety of subjects. The book contained a number of pointed social contrasts, such as the high-life presented on the front co
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Biography
Born in Hamburg, Bill Brandt was Man Ray's studio assistant in Paris in before settling in England in He worked as a freelance documentary photographer for Weekly Illustrated, Picture brev, Lilliput, and other British periodicals. During World War II, he photographed air raid shelters for the Ministry of Information and documented endangered buildings for the National Buildings Record. In he accepted portrait and mode assignments from Harper's Bazaar, thus producing fewer documentary surveys. Brandt published several books of photographs throughout his career, beginning with The English at Home (), A Night in London (), and Camera in London (). In the postwar years, his work became increasingly sammanfattning, as he experimented with a wide-angle lens and made Surrealist-inspired photographs of nudes outdoors. Brandt was included in many exhibitions during his lifetime, at, among others, the Museum of Modern Art, the George Eastman House, the National Centre of Photogra
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Following on from David Bailey, Bailey was heavily influenced, as was I, by our next iconic photographer, Bill Brandt.
Self Portrait
Bill Brandt, of course, is widely