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Bill Brandt (born Hermann Wilhelm Brandt; 2 May 1904 – 20 December 1983): 14 was a British photographer and photojournalist. Born in Germany, Brandt moved to England, where he became known for his images of British society for such magazines as Lilliput and Picture Post ; later he made distorted nudes , portraits of famous artists and ...
Bill Brandt (born Hermann Wilhelm Brandt; 2 May 1904 – 20 December 1983): 14 was a British photographer and photojournalist. Born in Germany, Brandt moved to England, where he became known for his images of British society for such magazines as Lilliput and Picture Post; later he made distorted nudes, portraits of famous artists and landscapes.
Bill Brandt (1904?83) was one of the most influential photographers of the 20th century. He is credited with revising and renewing the major artistic genres of portraiture, landscape and the nude.
Aug 7, 2021 · Photographers. Bill Brandt: Shadows of Life. By David Updated: August 7, 2021 19 Mins Read. Bill Brandt is regarded as one of the most important photographers of the 20th century. He is best known for his surrealist influenced nudes and his photos of London during the Blitz.
Apr 30, 2024 · Bill Brandt (born May 1904, Hamburg, Germany—died December 20, 1983, London, England) was a photographer known principally for his documentation of 20th-century British life and for his unusual nudes.
Bill Brandt was born in Hamburg on 2 May 1904 to an English father and a German mother. Due to the rise of Nazism and his experience of being bullied as a schoolboy after the First World War, he later disowned his German background, claiming to have been born in south London.
Bill Brandt (1904 -1983) was an enormously influential photographer whose legacy lives on through his social documentary images of British life in the 1930s and 1940s, high-contrast, distorted nudes and landscapes.
Bill Brandt (born Hermann Wilhelm Brandt; 2 May 1904 – 20 December 1983): 14 was a British photographer and photojournalist. Born in Germany, Brandt moved to England, where he became known for his images of British society for such magazines as Lilliput and Picture Post; later he made distorted nudes, portraits of famous artists and ...
People Sheltering in the Tube, Elephant and Castle Underground Station, photograph by Bill Brandt, 1940. © Bill Brandt Archive Ltd. After the London Blitz began in 1940, Brandt was commissioned to record bomb shelters by the Ministry of Information.
An English photographer of German birth, Bill Brandt travelled to Vienna in 1927 to see a lung specialist and then decided to stay and find work in a photography studio. There, in 1928, he met and made a successful portrait of the poet Ezra Pound, who subsequently introduced Brandt to the American-born, Paris-based photographer Man Ray.
