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'I photographed pubs, common lodging houses at night, theatres, Turkish baths,
prisons and people in their bedrooms. London has changed so much that some of
these pictures now have a period charm almost of another century.'
About Landscapes
'When I have found a landscape which I want to photograph, I wait for the right
season, the right weather, and the right time of day or night, to get the picture
which I know to be there.'
Methods
Nude Photography
● A Kodak camera- no shutter, wide-angle lens as small as a pinhole
● Camera very close to the body
● These contributed to a distortion of the body and made abstract designs of the body
● Also, integrated the human body into landscape of cliffs and rocky beach
Photographs in London
● Night photography- used portable tungsten lamps
● Used the darkroom to develop his photographs with a technique called “day for
night”- transformed images taken in the daylight into night scenes
● Created montages: combining pieces of two negatives into one print
Portraits
● In the 1960s he used a Hasselblad with a superwide-angle lens
○ Made his images dynamic and edgier looking
○ Used his family and friends to act out social roles
Night scene: Policeman in a
Nude Photography
Dockland Alley, 1938
Exposure: Francis Bacon
Bill Brandt with a Kodak
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bill-Brandt
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/b/bill-brandt-biography/
https://www.americansuburbx.com/2010/12/bill-brandt-bill-brandt-personal-v
iew.html
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/b/working-methods-bill-brandt/