#1724 - Bill Brandt

East Sussex Coast, 1953
August 2, 2025
#1724 - Bill Brandt
“Photography is still a very new medium and everything is allowed and everything should be tried.”

~ Bill Brandt
(1904-1983)

“Woman is the being who projects the greatest shadow or the greatest light on our dreams.”

~ Charles Baudelaire 
(1821-1867)

I have lived with and studied the work of Bill Brandt now for so many years, but the work never ceases to amaze and intrigue me. It always seems fresh and totally original. He is justly celebrated for his extraordinary nudes. He often used a wide angle lens, close up, causing the body to be distorted. Real and surreal, always alive.