Isle of Skye

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Isle of Skye

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Photographer · 1904–1983

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Discussing his approach to photography, Bill Brandt stated: "I am not interested in rules or conventions. Photography is not a sport. If I think a picture will look better brilliantly lit, I use lights, or even flash. It is the result that counts, no matter how it was achieved." He began his photographic career in Vienna and became an assistant in Man Ray's Paris studio in 1929. Brandt moved to En

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Date: 1947
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Culture: British
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Between 1945 and 1950 Brandt began a series of pictures exploring the Scottish countryside for the journal *Lilliput*. In this modern rendition of a traditional landscape subject, he captured what he described as the "atmospheric effects of strange, unearthly beauty" on the Isle of Skye in the northwest part of Scotland, where "the hills and moors are a dripping sponge."

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