Bill Brandt
Shadow and Light
by Sarah Hermanson Meister
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appears in Photography and Art.
Bill Brandt was the preeminent British photographer of the twentieth century, a founding father of photography's modernist tradition whose halfcenturylong career defies neat categorization. This publication presents the photographer's entire oeuvre, with special emphasis on his investigation of English life in the 1930s and his innovative late nu...
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