Bill Brandt

Bill Brandt, born 3rd May 1904 and died 20th December 1983, was a highly influential British photographer and photojournalist, best know for his extremely high contrast images of British society, as well as his distorted nudes and landscapes.
born in Hamburg, Germany son of a British dad, and a German mother he grew up during world war one. not to long after the war Brandt contracted TB, and spent most of his time in Davos, Switzerland. he travelled to Vienna to gain treatment for his TB, and not to soon after he was cured.
in 1933 he moved to London and began to document all levels of British society.
during the Second World War, Brandt would try his hand at every kind of subject, but he was regarded highly in his work in portraiture and landscape.
Post war his major books were Literary Britain (1951) and Perspective of Nudes (1961)

Antichrist

Directed by Lars von Trier, Antichrist tells the dramatic tale of a married couple who deal with the lost of their child. the mother of the child (Charlotte Gainsbourg) grief is so deeply rooted that it consigns her to hospital. her husband (Willem Dafoe) a therapist in his own right, decides to take her home, and help her to overcome her depression himself. as a way of helping her face her fears they both go to stay in a remote cabin in the woods. considered "Eden", where something unexplained happened the previous summer as they begin to try and rebuild.

Told in four chapters with a prologue and epilogue, the film in detail shows acts of lustful cruelty, and empty violence. some of the film stills are very artistically driven, which helps to hold tightly the balance between violence and beauty. Not as avaunt guard as i was hoping it to be, but Willem Dafoe engages the viewer and keeps you glued to your seats.

is this polly number two??

i was just looking through pictures on a friends blog of mine, and i come across this one.

is this polly's long lost sister she has always craved?

whatever your heart wants

this was a photograph i took a few months back at my friends bithday gathering.
polly is pictured.