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 a portrait studio. She also introduced him to the American poet Ezra Pound whom Brandt photographed. …
