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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Bill Brandt
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(Hermann Wilhelm Brandt, 1904–83) German photographer who made his career in Britain from 1931. His work during the 1930s cast a coldly dispassionate eye over the social extremes (the upstairs and the downstairs) of English life. After the war he became known for photographs of nudes, or details of nudes, taken in close-up with a wide-angle lens to form distorted sculptural shapes often hard to recognize as flesh – a transformation heightened by his grainy and contrasty prints.
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