Source
Bill Brandt
Citation
Bill Brandt. Wikipedia. Fetched 2026-05-07 from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Brandt.
Tier justification
Tier 3: Wikipedia is pointer-only per CREDIBILITY.md. Used here strictly to record day-month tokens (May 2 / December 20), the London place-of-death token, the birth name “Hermann Wilhelm Brandt”, and the Family-of-Man four-plate count cross-reference that the Tier-1 ICP page (src-icp-brandt-archive) does not state.
Key excerpts / pages
Verbatim claims from the article (fetched 2026-05-07; opening sentence, infobox, and Family-of-Man paragraph):
- Birth: “2 May 1904” in Hamburg, German Empire.
- Death: “20 December 1983” in London, England.
- Nationality: British (born in Germany).
- Birth name: Hermann Wilhelm Brandt.
- Family of Man (verbatim, per WebFetch 2026-05-07): “it is one of four by Brandt that appeared in world-touring The Family of Man”
- The exhibition “attended by more than 9 million visitors, and in the accompanying book catalogue.”
Notes
- Per
CREDIBILITY.md, Wikipedia is treated as a pointer source — the May 2, 1904 birth, December 20, 1983 death, London deathplace, and the “Hermann Wilhelm Brandt” birth name should be promoted to Tier 1/2 against a December 1983 Times (London) obituary, the Bill Brandt Archive monograph (Mark Haworth-Booth, ed.), or the V&A’s Brandt holdings catalog before being treated as authoritative for downstream training data. - The 1904 / 1983 year-only resolution is independently anchored at Tier 1 by the ICP archive page (src-icp-brandt-archive); the year-tokens are not in dispute. The day-month tokens carry pointer status.
- The four-plate count is independently verified by strict-match grep against
data/photographs.csv(2026-05-07). - “British (born in Germany)” — Brandt was naturalized British (year not specified on the page per the WebFetch return); the ICP page uses the parenthetical “British (b. Germany)” which matches.