After working briefly for Man Ray in Paris in the late 1920s, Bill Brandt settled in London in 1932 and over the next several decades produced an impressive and varied body of photographs. These encompassed scenes of everyday life published in the books The English at Home (1936) and A Night in London (1938), portraiture, and photojournalist work during World War II. Between 1945 and 1960, Brandt created his most arresting photographs, a series of experimental nudes that culminated in the publication of Perspective of Nudes (1961). The book is divided into six sections, one of which is devoted to photographs of nudes at the seashore, including this composition in which his distorted model’s body becomes part of the landscape. As Brandt said: “Photography is not a sport. It has no rules. Everything must be dared and tried.”