I’d previously mentioned Brandt’s portrait of Francis Bacon here. But I want revisit Brandt, b/c I think he was one of the most visually creative photographers of the 20th century, certainly one of the greats to come out of England. It’s almost impossible for me to fathom how he took the pictures he took and, for lack of better words, got them to work, at least without losing the idea’s effect within the idea’s requisites, and more specifically how he was able to transform the plurals of form and content into a singular. Although, he was Man Ray’s assistant so… As an example and as the picture-to-really-consider-of-the-day:

photo: Micheldever 1948 ©Bill Brandt