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Bill Brandt author-giles-sparrow with the illustrated text coveringWith a career spanning nearly half a century, Bill Brandt was a master of several major genres of photography: photojournalism, portraiture, the nude and landscapes. At first glance, Brandts genres may appear unrelated, but when analysing his career in its entirety, a common theme comes to the forefront: what psychologist Sigmund Freud and philosopher Eugenio Tras called 'the sinister.' From his earliest photographs taken as an amateur in the 1930s to