Bill Brandt
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BILL BRANDT
Vastiveral, 1954, silver print, 1950s, 9 x 7 3/4.
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BILL BRANDT
"Parlourmaid and Underparlourmaid Ready to Serve Dinner"
1933, silver print, ca. 1940s or 50s
9 x 7 3/4.
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BILL BRANDT
East Durham Coalminer, Just Home from the Pit
1937, silver print, ca. 1940s or 50s
9 x 7 3/4.
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BILL BRANDT,
Vasarely, 1964, silver print, 1960s, 9 x 7 3/4. |
BILL BRANDT,
Rainswept Roofs, ca. 1930s, silver print, 1930s or 1940s, 9 3/4 x 7 1/2. |
BILL BRANDT,
“Train Leaving Newcastle”, 1930s, silver print, 1950s or 1960s, 9 x 7 3/4. |
BILL BRANDT,
“A Lyons Nippy” (Miss Hibbott), 1939, silver print, ca. 1939, 9 3/4 x 7 1/4. |
BILL BRANDT,
“At the Elephant and Castle Underground Station”, 1940, silver print, 1940, 10 x 8, Press photo. |
Bill Brandt, English, 1904-1983
Bill Brandt was born in London in 1904. While studying architecture in Germany and Switzerland he began working in portrait studios where he fell in love with photography. He later moved to Paris and studied under Man Ray between 1929-1930. While Brandt admired photographers such as Edward Weston, Cartier-Bresson and Eugene Atget, he became greatly influenced by surrealism. In 1931 he returned to England where he became a freelance photographer and began documenting the English way of life. His images were featured in publications including Harper?s Bazaar, News Chronicle and Picture Post. With the onset of World War II, Brandt became a staff photographer for the British Home Office where he reported on the hardships of the English people during the German bombing raids. By the end of the war, Brandt had become disillusioned with documentary photography and yearned to create the type of images he made in his earlier years in Paris. He began to photograph nudes, landscapes and portraits. Brandt is best known for his high contrast images with their stark black-and-white tones, and for his use of a wide-angle lens which distorted the subject matter and gave the image a surreal quality. His work can be found in most museums that collect photographs.
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