Every aspect of Bill Brandt's multi-faceted photographic career is included in this retrospective review of his work. Published on the occasion of a major exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery in London this comprehensive monograph includes his many celebrated images and much work that has never been published in book form. Brandt's career began with his apprenticeship to Man Ray, moved to an encyclopaedic study of Britain in the thirties and progressed to landscape, portraiture and nudes. This exhaustive collection of images, along with four appendices on his life and work, combine to create the only definitive volume available on one of Britain's most brilliant and enigmatic photographers.