Billy brandt biography

Bill Brandt (British, born May 2, 1904–died December 20, 1983) was a.
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Bill Brandt was a photographer known principally for his documentation of 20th-century British life and for his unusual nudes.

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Bill Brandt Germany, 1904-1983

Bill Brandt was originally born on May 3rd, 1904 in Hamburg, Germany but later rose to prominence in the milieu of great British photographers.

After his schooling in Germany, Brandt studied photography and moved to Paris in the late 20s, working briefly in Man Ray's studio. Though he only worked there for three months, he was profoundly influenced by the Surrealist movement, which would inspire his series of distorted nudes later in life. Brandt was also deeply inspired by Parisian photographer, Eugène Atget, whose influence is also evident in much of Brandt's documentary work.

In the 1930's Bill Brandt would go on to photograph for various magazines, such as Lilliput, Picture Post, Minotaure, Paris Magazine, and Harper's Bazaar. He soon ventured to Great Britain, documenting daily British life. When World War II broke out, Brandt worked for the British Home Office as a staff photographer, where he captured ghostly images of war-torn buildings. His second book, A Night in L

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For any young photographer at that time, Paris was the centre of the world. Those were the exciting early days when the French poets and surrealists recognised the possibilities of photography.

Bill Brandt

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.

During the 1920s Brandt was sent to a sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland, to receive treatment for tuberculosis. It is likely that he took up photography as an amateur enthusiast during this time.

In 1927 Brandt travelled to Vienna, where he met the writer and social activist Dr Eugenie Schwarzwald (1872 – 1940), a pioneer of education for girls in Austria, whose home provided a venue for the intellectual elite of the time. Schwarzwald found a position for Brandt in a local portrait studio and introduced him to the American poet Ezra Pound (1885 – 1972). In turn, Pound apparently introduced

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Biography

Born in Hamburg, Bill Brandt was Man Ray's studio assistant in Paris in 1929 before settling in England in 1931. He worked as a freelance documentary photographer for Weekly Illustrated, Picture Post, 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 1943 he accepted portrait and fashion 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 (1936), A Night in London (1938), and Camera in London (1948). In the postwar years, his work became increasingly abstract, 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 Photography in England, and ICP.
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