His influence went far and wide, with photographers such as Bernice Abbott and Bill Brandt just two of those whose vision was shaped by Man Ray.

BBC: Man Ray's portraits go on show

Bill Brandt, an American who worked for BP for 20 years, has moved to Arizona, where he works with the state university setting up clean-energy joint ventures.

ECONOMIST: London��s future

His work follows in the footsteps of some of the most celebrated photographers of the past, including Bill Brandt, Tony Ray Jones, Tom Wood and of course Martin Parr.

BBC: England Uncensored by Peter Dench

This is as true of 20th-century stars like Walker Evans, Elliott Erwitt or Bill Brandt as it is of the early snappers, such as William Constable, who set up the first photographic studio in Brighton in 1841.

ECONOMIST: This show is a gem

Bill Brandt died in 1983.

WSJ: What Went On in the Dark | Bill Brandt | Shadows and Light | Museum of Modern Art | By William Meyers

Through the mastery of double negatives, dodging and burning, and other darkroom deceits, talented photographers including Wanda Wulz and Bill Brandt (whose work is the subject of an upcoming MoMA retrospective) made the medium as unreliably personal as the most fantastical painters had ever achieved on canvas.

FORBES: Why Founding Photographer William Henry Fox Talbot Would Have Grokked Photoshop

Perhaps the masterwork here (also on the catalog cover) is his 1982 double portrait of Bill and Noya Brandt.

WSJ: The Polaroid SX-70 as Sexy Tech | Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center | By Richard B. Woodward