The photographer must first have seen his subject or some aspect of his subject as something transcending the ordinary. It is part of the photographer’s job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep with him something of the receptiveness of the child who looks at the world for the first time or of the traveler who enters a strange country… they carry within themselves a sense of wonder. - Bill Brandt
“He wasn’t interested in anything that didn’t lend itself to mystery. The mystery was in Bill, and he projected it on to whatever he photographed.”
Sir Tom Hopkinson
Bill Brandt
Snicket in Halifax, 1937. Gelatin silver print 9 x 7 3/4 inches Artist's credit stamp on verso. Printed ca 1948-1950
In the Public Bar at Charlie Brown’s, Limehouse, 1945. Gelatin silver print 9 x 7 5/8 inches. Artist’s credit stamp. Titled in an unknown hand in pencil on verso. printed ca 1945
Gull’s Nest, Late on Midsummer night, Isle of Skye, 1947 Gelatin silver print 9 7/8 x 8 3/8 inches Stamped twice with artist’s credit stamp. Titled ‘Isle of Skye’ in unknown hand on verso. Printed ca 1947