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Bill Brandt

British Photographer

Born: May 3, 1904

Died: Dec 20, 1983

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It is part of the photographer's job to see more intensely than most people do. He must have and keep in 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. Bill Brandt

Time Strange People World Job First Country Must Photographer See Something More He Part Most Looks Him First Time Than Child Intensely Who Traveler Keep

It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment. Bill Brandt

Life Gift Own Temperament Seeing Vividly Something Individual Environment Exciting Clearly Around Intensity Them Right Innate

Most photographers would feel a certain embarrassment in admitting publicly that they carried within them a sense of wonder, yet without it they would not produce the work they do, whatever their particular field. Bill Brandt

Work Admitting Whatever Sense Field Carried Embarrassment Photographers Would Feel Particular Most Within Without Wonder Them Produce Certain Publicly

And only the photographer himself knows the effect he wants. He should know by instinct, grounded in experience, what subjects are enhanced by hard or soft, light or dark treatment. Bill Brandt

Experience Dark Light Photographer Only He Instinct Know Himself Knows Effect Subjects Wants Should Hard Grounded Enhanced Treatment Soft

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