Bill Brandt
Bill Brandt was born in London in 1904. The family moved to Germany but Brandt was suffering from tuberculosis and attended a sanitarium in Switzerland. When he left the hospital in 1929, he went to France where he studied with an artist, Man Ray in Paris. Bill took up photography and his first work appeared in the Paris Magazine in 1930. During the Depression he returned to Britain and his photographs appeared in the Daily Chronicle. During the Second World War Brant recorded like during the Blitz and became one of the world’s leading photojournalists. In 1948 he published The Camera in London. After the war Bill lost interest in documentary photography and developed his ideas on expressionism and surrealism. His subjects included nudes, landscape, and seashores. Bill Brandt died in 1938.
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