Bill Brandt
(b Hamburg, 3 May 1904; d London, 20 Dec 1983).
English photographer of German birth. The son of a British father and a
German mother, he suffered the traumas of World War I, followed by a long
period of illness with tuberculosis. This affliction caused Brandt to spend
much of his early youth in a sanitarium in Davos, Switzerland. Between the
ages of 16 and 22 Brandt derived a lot of his knowledge of the world from
illustrated books and magazines. His mother was an enthusiast for poster art
and took Das Plakat, an up-to-date journal of graphic art that
featured work of such contemporaries as Lucian Bernhard (1883–1972). As a
boy Brandt became proficient in drawing and painting in watercolours.
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Miners
Returning to Daylight, South Wales
1931
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Window
in Osborn Street
1931
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Evening
in Kenwood
1935
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East
End girl, doing the Lambeth Walk
1936
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Parlourmaid
at a window in Kensington
1935
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Parlourmaid
and under-parlourmaid ready to serve dinner
1936
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Coal
Searcher Going Home to Jarrow
1937
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Street Scene
1940
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Dylan
Thomas
1941
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Hampstead,
London
1945
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Portrait
of a Young Girl, Eaton Place, London
1955
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East
Sussex Coast
1957
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Francis
Bacon
1963
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Paul
Schofield
1981
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Vastiveral
1954
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East Durham Coalminer, Just
Home from the Pit
1937
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Rainswept Roofs
1930
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Train Leaving Newcastle
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Miss Hibbott
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At the Elephant and Castle
Underground Station
1940
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London (Nude),
c.1945
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London,
1958
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Vasarely, 1964
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Giacometti, 1963
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Jean Dubuffet, 1960
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Tapies, 1964
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Jean Arp, 1960
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Nude
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Nude
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Nude
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Untitled
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Young Housewife, Bethnal
Green, London
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Nude
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London
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Self Portrait with Mirror,
East Sussex Coast
1966
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Jean Dubuffet
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La Seine à Neuilly, Vu de
la Grande Tatte
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A Snicket in Halifax
1937
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Nude
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Nude,
East Sussex Coast, 1957
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Hampstead, London, 1956
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The Haunted Bathroom, Campden
Hill, London, 1948
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Nude, Campden
Hill, London, 1950
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Nude,
London, 1950
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