biography
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Brandt, Bill
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popular name of William Brandt
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pronunciation:
[brant]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1904–83)
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| biography:
| Photographer, born in London, UK. He studied with Man Ray in Paris in 1929 and returned to London in 1931. Later in the 1930s he made a series of striking social records, contrasting the lives of the rich and the poor, and during World War 2 he worked for the ministry of information recording conditions in London in the Blitz. His greatest creative work was his treatment of the nude, in which his essays in pure form, as published in Perspective of Nudes (1961) and Shadows of Light (1966), approached the surreal. |
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