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Bill Brandt

Bill Brandt (1904-1983) is regarded as Britain's greatest modern photographer. His career began in Paris in 1929 as an assistant to the Surrealist artist/photographer Man Ray and in the early 1930s he moved to England, where he established his reputation by working for magazines documenting British cultural and social life. In the post-war period Brandt's Surrealist interests came to play a major role in his photography. He began to favour a more subjective and imaginative aesthetic that led to his concentration on the female nude as his principal theme. 

Brandt's work is held in public and private collections worldwide, and his centenary was celebrated with a major exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. England & Co's exhibition Brandt: Known and Unknown showed large format prints of Bill Brandt's famous series of Nudes from the late 1940s and 1950s alongside works by his brother Rolf Brandt, the distinguished painter and illustrator.

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