Faves - Bill Brandt

One of my favourite and the most innovative photographers of all time (1904-1983). With the wideangle lens, which Bill Brandt first mounted on an old wooden camera belonging to the British police, and then on a modern Hasselblad, he worked on his post-second World War productions relating the foreground to the background, and allowing each portion of the frame to be perfectly clear and comprehensible.

Often human body parts – ear, palms, legs - in Brandt's pictures are becoming an integral part of the panorama. The resemblance between the dark shapes and the cavity completes the fusion between human and natural landscape, suggesting to the observer unusual references and new interpretations.

Brant reaches the heighten outcomes required by the aesthetics of metaphysics and surrealism by pushing himself to the limits of abstraction.