Books
Bill Brandt: A Life
(Stanford University Press, 2004)
Bill Brandt
(Thames & Hudson, 2007)
Bill Brandt: Behind the Camera
(Aperture, 2005)
London in the Thirties
(Pantheon Books, 1984)
Brandt: The Photography of Bill Brandt
(Abrams, 1999)
Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light
(MOMA, 2013)
Bill Brandt
(Thames & Hudson, 2020)
Bill Brandt: Photographs 1928-1983
(Thames & Hudson, 1994)
More by Bill Brandt
- Bill Brandt (1904-1983)
Resilience and inequality framed by the economic depression, political upheaval, and the photographer’s intimate exploration of societal challenges.
- Bill Brandt (1904-1983)
Female form through abstraction, distortion, and unconventional perspectives using wide-angle lens to explore the interplay between the human body and its environment.
Related Projects
- Brassaï (1899-1984)
Parisian nightlife during the interwar period, capturing the interplay of light and shadow in the city’s streets and social underworld.
- Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)
Ephemeral human moments portrayed through a fusion of spontaneity and precise composition.
- Weegee (1899-1968)
Nighttime scenes of 1930s-1940s New York, portraying urban extremes of crime and social life through high-contrast flash photography and candid depictions of human emotion.
- Helmar Lerski (1871-1956)
Anonymous working-class individuals, photographed with dramatic lighting techniques and stripped of social context, to evoke a universal essence.
- Robert Doisneau (1912-1994)
Parisian suburbs during the transformative post-war period, capturing the interplay of evolving urban landscapes and the lives of working-class communities.
- Johan van der Keuken (1938-2001)
Working-class life and urban alienation in 1950s Paris during post-war recovery and Algerian War, bridging the humanist documentary tradition with more experimental and subjective approaches.