Bill Brandt Quotes

Bill Brandt — British Photographer born on May 03, 1904, died on December 20, 1983

Bill Brandt, was a British photographer and photojournalist. Although born in Germany, Brandt moved to England, where he became known for his images of British society for such magazine as Lilliput and Picture Post, later his distorted nudes, portraits of famous artists and landscapes. He is widely considered to be one of the most important British photographers of the 20th century... (wikipedia)

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.

I consider it essential that the photographer should do his own printing and enlarging. The final effect of the finished print depends so much on these operations.

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.

A photographer must be prepared to catch and hold on to those elements which give distinction to the subject or lend it atmosphere.

Photography is still a very new medium and everything must be tried and dare.