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)