Bill Brandt
Bill Brandt
Bill Brandt, was a British photographer and photojournalist. Although born in Germany, Brandt moved to England, where he became known for his images of British society for such magazine as Lilliput and Picture Post, later his distorted nudes, portraits of famous artists and landscapes. He is widely considered to be one of the most important British photographers of the 20th century...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth3 May 1904
fields admitting photographer
Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field.
photography finals essentials
I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.
photography waiting luck
Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.
photography eye thinking
It is essential for the photographer to know the effect of his lenses. The lens is his eye, and it makes or ruins his pictures. A feeling for composition is a great asset. I think it is very much a matter of instinct. It can perhaps be developed, but I doubt if it can be learned. To achieve his best work, the young photographer must discover what really excites him visually. He must discover his own world.
erotic sentimental photograph
A good nude photograph can be erotic, but certainly not sentimental or pornographic.
photographer produce distinction
The good photographer will produce a competent picture every time whatever his subject. But only when his subject makes and immediate and direct appeal to his own interests will he produce a work of distinction.
photography paper shade
No amount of toying with shades of print or with printing papers will transform a commonplace photograph into anything other than a commonplace photograph.
country jobs children
It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in him something of the receptiveness of a child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country We are most of us too busy, too worried, too intent on proving ourselves right, too obsessed with ideas to stand and stare Very rarely are we able to free our minds of thoughts and emotions and just see for the simple pleasure of seeing. And so long as we fail to do this, so long will the essence of things be hidden from us.
photography dark light
And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment.
photography dare mediums
Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.
children looks world
The photographer must possess and preserve the receptive faculties of a child who looks at the world for the first time.
giving atmosphere elements
A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.
sports photography matter
Photography has no rules, it is not a sport. It is the result which counts, no matter how it is achieved.
sports photography conventions
I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport.