Bill Brandt
(1904-1983), PhotographerSitter in 34 portraits
Artist of 120 portraits
Born into an Anglo-German family in Hamburg, Brandt learnt photography in Vienna in the 1920s, spending three months in 1930 as an assistant to Man Ray. Brandt settled with his wife Eva in London in 1934. He published his first photographic impressions of the country, staged by friends and family, as The English at Home (1936). His commissions for Lilliput magazine from 1941 established him as a portraitist, and he became a regular contributor to Harper's Bazaar. A series of portraits of writers was published as Literary Britain in 1951. His book Bill Brandt Portraits was published in 1982, the same year the National Portrait Gallery staged a portrait retrospective.
by Lida Moser
2 1/4 inch square film negative, 1949
NPG x45314
by Ida Kar
modern bromide print, August 1968
NPG x133291
by Ida Kar
modern bromide print, August 1968
NPG x135229
by Ida Kar
modern bromide print, August 1968
NPG x135230
by Ida Kar
modern bromide print, August 1968
NPG x135231
by Ida Kar
vintage contact sheet, August 1968
NPG x127317
by Ruth Spencer
bromide print on white paper and grey card mount, 1973
NPG x3776
by Ruth Spencer
bromide print on white paper and grey card mount, 1973
NPG x3777
by Derry Moore, 12th Earl of Drogheda
bromide fibre print, 1974
NPG x126966
by Paul Joyce
bromide print on card mount, November 1976
NPG x13427
by Mark Haworth-Booth
colour polaroid print, 1978-1983
NPG x199218
by Mark Haworth-Booth
colour polaroid print, 1978-1983
NPG x199219
by Roger George Clark
bromide print, 24 August 1978
NPG x15100
by Chris Taylor
bromide print, 6 May 1982
NPG x126890
Richard Louis Ormond; Bill Brandt
by Chris Taylor
bromide fibre print, 6 May 1982
NPG x126891
Group at the private view for 'Bill Brandt: Portraits'
by Chris Taylor
bromide fibre print, 6 May 1982
NPG x126892
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