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British photographer

Bill Brandt (born Hermann Wilhelm Brandt; 2 May 1904 – 20 December 1983) 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. He is widely considered to be one of the most important British photographers of the 20th century. Shortly after the war, he contracted tuberculosis and spent much of his youth in a sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland. He traveled to Vienna to undertake a course of treatment by psychoanalysis. He was, in any case, pronounced cured and was taken under the wing of socialite Eugenie Schwarzwald. When Ezra Pound visited the Schwarzwald residence, Brandt made his portrait. In appreciation, Pound reportedly offered Brandt an introduction to Man Ray, whose Paris studio and darkroom Brandt would access in 1930. This kind of documentary was uncommon at that time. Brandt published two books showcasing this work, The English at Home (1936) and A Night in London (1938). He was a regular contributor to magazines such as Lilliput, Picture Post, and Harper's Bazaar. He documented the Underground bomb shelters of London during The Blitz in 1940, commissioned by the Ministry of Information. The photos were taken with a Rolleiflex camera. In 2010, an English Heritage blue plaque for Brandt was erected in London at 4 Airlie Gardens, Kensington, W8.

The English at Home. Introduction by Raymond Mortimer. London: B. T. Batsford/New York: C. Scribner's, 1936. A Night in London. The story of a London night. London: Country Life/New York: C. Scribner's/Paris: Arts et Métiers Graphiques, 1938. Camera in London. Text by Bill Brandt, commentary by Nora Wilson. London: Focal, 1948. Literary Britain. Introduction by John Hayward. London: Cassell, 1951. 2nd ed. : edited and with an afterword by Mark Haworth Booth. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1984. Perspective of Nudes. Preface by Lawrence Durrell, introduction by Chapman Mortimer. London: The Bodley Head/New York: Amphoto, 1961. French ed. : Perspectives sur le nu. Paris: Prisma, 1961. Shadow of Light. A Collection of Photographs from 1931 to 1966. Introduction by Cyril Connolly, notes by Marjorie Becket. London: Bodley Head/New York: Viking, 1966
French ed. : Ombres d'une île. Paris: Le Belier Prisma, 1967.

Bill Brandt: Photographs. Exhibition catalogue, introduction by Aaron Scharf. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1970. 2nd English ed. : additional introduction by Mark Haworth Booth. London: Gordon Fraser Gallery/New York: Da Capo, 1977. Bill Brandt: Early Photographs, 1930–1942. Exhibition catalogue, introduction by Peter Turner. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1975. Bill Brandt. Exhibition catalogue, essay by Norman Hall. New York: Marlborough Fine Art, 1976. Bill Brandt: Nudes 1945–1980. Introduction by Michael Hiley. London and Bedford: G. Fraser/Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1980. ISBN 9780860920519/ISBN 9780821210970. 2nd ed. : Herbert Press Ltd, 1990, ISBN 9781871569247. Photographs by Bill Brandt. Introduction by Mark Haworth Booth. Washington DC: International Exhibitions Foundation, 1980. Bill Brandt: A Retrospective Exhibition. Catalogue, introduction by David Mellor. Bath: Royal Photographic Society/National Centre of Photography, 1981. Bill Brandt: Portraits. Introduction by Alan Ross. London: G. Fraser/Austin: University of Texas Press, 1982. Bill Brandt: Portraits. Exhibition catalogue, introduction by Richard Ormond. London: National Portrait Gallery, 1982. Bill Brandt: War Work. Exhibition catalogue. London: The Photographers Gallery, 1983. Bill Brandt: London in the Thirties. London: G. Fraser, 1984. US ed. : Introduction by Mark Haworth Booth. New York: Pantheon, 1984. Bill Brandt: Behind the Camera. Photographs 1923–1983. Published in connection with the exhibition in Philadelphia. Introductions by Mark Haworth Booth, essay by David Mellor. New York: Aperture, 1985. Bill Brandt: Photographs 1928–1983. London: Thames and Hudson, 1993. Warburton, Nigel (ed.). Bill Brandt; Selected texts and bibliography. Oxford: Clio, 1993; Macmillan Library Reference, 1994. The Photographs of Bill Brandt. London: Thames and Hudson, 1999. Delany, Paul: Bill Brandt: A Life. Stanford University Press, 2004. Brandt: Nudes. London: Thames and Hudson, 2012. Hermanson Meister, Sarah. Shadow and Light. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2013. ISBN 9780870708459.