Bill Brandt (British, 1904-1983), born in London and raised mainly in Germany and Switzerland, is one of the acknowledged masters of 20th century photography. His photographic career began in Vienna in 1928 when he moved to Paris and assisted American painter and photographer Man Ray. He settled in London in 1930 and became the great documentarian of British social and cultural life—his work as a whole constitutes one of the most varied and vivid social documents of a country to be produced in our time. Brandt produced a revolution in photographic vision with his outstanding series, Perspective of Nudes, a series of dramatic sculptural images of nudes metamorphasized into imaginary landscapes.