Bill Brandt also known as Hermann Wilhelm Brandt was born on May 2nd, 1904 and passed away on  December  20, 1983. He was a British photographer as well as a photojournalist. He was orignally born in German but later moved to England, where he received recognition for his images of the British society under the magazine brands such as Lilliput and Picture Post, and eventually leading to his distorted nudes, along with portraits of famous artists and landscapes. He is famously portrayed to be at the top of the list of important British photographers in the 20th century.

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One of this pieces was the “Grand Union Canal, Paddington c1938” which shows a waterway, that was engineered by William Jessop and James Barnes, it established a link of London, via Brentford and the Thames, with the canals of the Midlands. This piece is actually quite beautiful of a black and white photograph which has a sense of repetition and perfect flow of the water and buildings creating a sense of depth of perspective. Its really composed shot.