Brandt, Bill (1904–1983)

English photographer. During the 1930s he made a series of social records contrasting the lives of the rich and the poor, some of which were presented in his book The English at Home (1936). During World War II he documented conditions in London in the Blitz. The strong contrasts in his black-and-white prints often produced a gloomy and threatening atmosphere. His outstanding creative work was his treatment of the nude, published in Perspective of Nudes and Shadows of Light (both 1966).