Brandt, in common with many other photographers, later preferred not to admit to the constructed nature of some of his key pictures, many of which had by then taken their rightful place in the canon of social documentary – for the idea that ‘documentary’ photography can’t include setting up pictures should have been thrown out with the maid’s bathwater.

on Bill Brandt - cited in 'Brandt Awareness', British Journal of Photography 30th September 1993 p. 14.

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