The artist Bill Brandt was born in Hamburg, Germany on May 3^rd, 1904, and he was one of four boys in his family. In 1920, when he was 16, he contracted tuberculosis and spent six years in a hospital in Davos, Switzerland. After those very long years in the hospital, Bill Brandt traveled to Vienna, Austria and started working in a portrait studio with Greta Kolliner. Brandt moved around twice between 1929 and 1930, he was first in Vienna, Austria then in 1929 he moved to Paris to work with Man Ray, then in 1930 he moved to England and worked as a freelance photographer. He had written many books throughout his life, his first book was published in 1936 called The English at Home, which talked about the economic and social conditions of England, in 1938 his second book was published, A Night in London, then in 1961 he published his first book of nudes called Perspective of Nudes, and many more after that. After his first book was published Bill Brandt decided to travel even more, from England he went to Barcelona to Toledo then Madrid. In 1937 the first published of the fine-art magazine, Lilliput and it included many images that were taken by Bill Brandt and from there he was becoming one of the most-sought photographers of his time. In 1955 when he took the photo, Portrait of a Young Girl, Eaton Place, he would’ve been about 51 at the time. That image out of all his other work is the one that is the most frequently reproduced. Bill Brandt was most known for his nude portraits since the 1940s and deemed to one of the World’s Greatest Photographers by the Observer. On December 20, 1983 Bill Brandt at the age of 79, died from an illness and per his request his ashes were spread throughout Holland Park in London. Then not long after Brandt passed he was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum in 1984.

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Oden, Lori. Bill Brandt. 1898-1991. <https://iphf.org/inductees/bill-brandt/>.