1901–1983 · United States · Photographer
Lisette Model
Frank, close-up street portraits with a blunt humanism.
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PHOTOGRAPHER · 1904–1983 · UNITED KINGDOM
Bill Brandt
High-contrast social documentary, then distorted nudes and stark landscapes.
- Born
- 1904
- Died
- 1983
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 1936The English at Home
- 1938A Night in London
- 1961Perspective of Nudes
WHY THEY MATTER
Retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art (1969, 2013) and Tate Britain (2022); widely seen as one of the most important British photographers of the twentieth century.
THE LIFE
Brandt was born in Germany and settled in England, where he photographed British society for Lilliput and Picture Post. His book The English at Home mapped the class divides of the 1930s. Later he made distorted nudes, artists' portraits and landscapes. The Museum of Modern Art and Tate Britain have both given him major exhibitions.
WHAT THEY SHOT WITH
Rolleiflex
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