Bill Brandt-photographer-bio+study of "Perspective of Nudes"

Bill Brandt (1904-83) Perspective of Nudes London 1951 Artist Bill Brandt was born in Germany in 1904 and later moved to his hometown, London in 1931. He grew up during World War 1. Brandt probably took up photography as a hobby when he was a patient undergoing treatment for tuberculosis in a sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland, in the 1920s. In 1927 he traveled to Vienna, Austria, where he was taken up by another doctor. She found him a position in …

…contrast, during those years before the war, was, visually, very inspiring for me. I started by photographing in London, the West End, the suburbs, the slums.' '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 recognized the possibilities of photography.' 'Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried.'